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Revision 1.177 by root, Mon Dec 4 22:05:48 2006 UTC vs.
Revision 1.275 by root, Thu Oct 11 00:38:37 2007 UTC

1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2 2
3TODO: better (earlier) error messages on broken transfer's 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
84.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
9 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
10 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
11 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
12 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
13 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
14 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
15 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
16 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
17 speeds up context switching a bit.
18 - further tune default stack sizes.
19 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
20 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
21 resulting in races between coroutines.
22 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
23 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
24 an unrelated coroutine.
25 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
26 more detail in Coro::State.
27 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
28 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
29 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
30 invalidating pointers.
31
324.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
33 - added Coro::throw method.
34 - minor code cleanups.
35
364.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
37 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
38 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
39 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
40 or use tracing).
41 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
42 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
43 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
44
454.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
46 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
47 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
48
494.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
50 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
51 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
52 debugging, tracing and much more.
53 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
54 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
55 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
56 flags.
57 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
58 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
59 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
60 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
61 - added Coro::killall.
62 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
63 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
64 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
65 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
66 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
67 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
68 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
69 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
70 - many minor tweaks.
71
723.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
73 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
74
753.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
76 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
77 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
78
793.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
80 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
81 pst's sometimes.
82 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
83 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
84 be threadsafe...).
85 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
86 but stateful semantics.
87 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
88 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
89
903.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
91 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
92 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
93 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
94 (EXPERIMENTAL).
95 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
96 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
97 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
98 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
99
1003.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
101 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
102 it by default.
103 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
104 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
105 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
106 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
107 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
108 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
109 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
110 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
111 performance.
112
1133.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
114 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
115 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
116
1173.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
118 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
119 them without asking.
120
1213.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
122 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
123 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
124 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
125 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
126 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
127 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
128
1293.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
130 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
131 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
132 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
133 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
134 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
135 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
136 obsolete platforms.
137
1383.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
139 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
140 but was rather flaky in practise.
141 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
142 it was reused.
143 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
144 in cede_notself.
145
1463.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
147 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
148 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
149 documented and - hopefully - improved.
150 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
151 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
152 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
153 that could errronously trigger.
154 - fix various large and small memleaks.
155 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
156 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
157 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
158 - added Coro::guard function.
159 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
160 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
161 and 128k coros with async_pool).
162 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
163
1643.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
165 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
166 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
167 - simplify configuration for users.
168 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
169 their coro replacements.
170
1713.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
172 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
173 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
174 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
175 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
176 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
177 - save/restore tainted status.
178 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
4 179
53.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006 1803.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
6 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow). 181 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
7 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state. 182 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
8 - give a better error message on deadlock. 183 - give a better error message on deadlock.

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