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Revision 1.171 by root, Sun Dec 3 21:59:52 2006 UTC vs.
Revision 1.259 by root, Fri Oct 5 23:38:39 2007 UTC

1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2 2
3TODO: transfer flags must be per state 3TODO: should explore PerlIO::via::CoroCede and PerlIO::via::CoroAIO.
4TODO: maybe implement a default message channel, very much like Erlang
5 (which is cool in a lot of important aspects (failures!),
6 but very lacking in others (higher level ipc)).
7
84.02
9 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
10 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
11 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
12 or use tracing).
13 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
14
154.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
16 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
17 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
18
194.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
20 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
21 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
22 debugging, tracing and much more.
23 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
24 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
25 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
26 flags.
27 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
28 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
29 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
30 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
31 - added Coro::killall.
32 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
33 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
34 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
35 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
36 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
37 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
38 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
39 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
40 - many minor tweaks.
41
423.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
43 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
44
453.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
46 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
47 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
48
493.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
50 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
51 pst's sometimes.
52 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
53 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
54 be threadsafe...).
55 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
56 but stateful semantics.
57 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
58 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
59
603.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
61 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
62 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
63 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
64 (EXPERIMENTAL).
65 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
66 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
67 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
68 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
69
703.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
71 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
72 it by default.
73 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
74 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
75 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
76 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
77 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
78 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
79 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
80 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
81 performance.
82
833.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
84 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
85 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
86
873.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
88 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
89 them without asking.
90
913.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
92 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
93 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
94 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
95 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
96 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
97 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
98
993.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
100 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
101 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
102 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
103 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
104 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
105 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
106 obsolete platforms.
107
1083.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
109 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
110 but was rather flaky in practise.
111 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
112 it was reused.
113 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
114 in cede_notself.
115
1163.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
117 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
118 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
119 documented and - hopefully - improved.
120 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
121 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
122 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
123 that could errronously trigger.
124 - fix various large and small memleaks.
125 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
126 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
127 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
128 - added Coro::guard function.
129 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
130 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
131 and 128k coros with async_pool).
132 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
133
1343.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
135 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
136 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
137 - simplify configuration for users.
138 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
139 their coro replacements.
140
1413.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
142 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
143 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
144 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
145 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
146 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
147 - save/restore tainted status.
148 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
149
1503.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
151 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
152 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
153 - give a better error message on deadlock.
154 - document Coro::nready.
155 - enhanced testsuite.
156
1573.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
158 - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
4 159
53.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006 1603.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
6 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon: 161 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
7 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release). 162 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
8 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack 163 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack

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