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Revision 1.24 by root, Mon Jul 23 19:58:10 2001 UTC vs.
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1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2 2
30.10 3TODO: better (earlier) error messages on broken transfer's
4
53.2
6 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
7 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
8 - simplify configuration for users.
9 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
10 their coro replacements.
11
123.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
13 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
14 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
15 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
16 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
17 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
18 - save/restore tainted status.
19 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
20
213.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
22 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
23 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
24 - give a better error message on deadlock.
25 - document Coro::nready.
26 - enhanced testsuite.
27
283.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
29 - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
30
313.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
32 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
33 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
34 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
35 pool (size currently hardcoded).
36 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
37 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
38 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
39 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
40 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
41 check for changed watchers.
42 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
43 per event.
44 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
45 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
46 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
47 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
48 some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
49 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
50 directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
51 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
52 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
53 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
54 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
55 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
56 - updated to newest libcoro.
57 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
58 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
59 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
60 and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
61 if somebody asks for it :)
62 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
63 spuriously without the event having happened.
64
652.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
66 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
67 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
68 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
69 make LWP non-blocking.
70 - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
71 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
72 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
73 - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
74 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
75 - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
76 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
77 by LWP(!!).
78 - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
79 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
80 kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
81 did already.
82
832.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
84 - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
85 zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
86 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
87 (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
88 - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
89 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
90 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
91 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
92
932.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
94 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
95
961.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
97
981.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
99 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
100 mark & sweep gc run.
101 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
102
1031.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
104 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
105 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
106
1071.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
108 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
109 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
110 wrong package.
111 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
112 perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
113 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
114 normally uses.
115 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
116
1171.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
118 - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
119
1201.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
121 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
122 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
123 - strict'ify some modules.
124 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
125 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
126 - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
127
1281.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
129 - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
130 when 'l'inux method was used.
131
1321.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
133 - some portability fixes/workarounds.
134
1351.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
136 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
137 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
138 Coro::State::flush method.
139 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
140
1411.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
142 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
143 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
144 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
145 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
146 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
147
1481.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
149 - change of contact address.
150
1511.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
152 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
153 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
154
1551.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
156 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
157 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
158 padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
159
1600.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
161 - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
162
1630.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
164 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
165 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
166 as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
167 Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
168 between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
169 fixable).
170 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
171
1720.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
173 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
174 faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
175 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
176 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
177 observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
178 of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
179 pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
180 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
181 - fix for threaded perl.
182
1830.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
184 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
185 memory leaks.
186 - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
187 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
188 hopefully ignoring it "just works".
189
1900.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
191 - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
192 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
193
1940.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
195 - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
196 of new features.
197 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
198 Highly correct stuff, that is...
199 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
200 the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
201
2020.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
203 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
204 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
205 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
206 so preselect it.
207
2080.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
209 - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
210 on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
211
2120.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
213 - added a README.linux-glibc.
214 - new module Coro::Select.
215 - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
216 (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
217 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
218
2190.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
220 - made lazy context switching the default.
221 - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
222 was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
223 - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
224 - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
225
2260.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
227 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
228 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
229 - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
230 ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
231 - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
232 of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
233
2340.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
235 - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
236 - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
237 could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
238
2390.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
240 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
241 (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
242 without Event, which freezes).
243
2440.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
245 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
246
2470.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
248 - some tests for Event.
249 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
250 and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
251 new ones.
252 - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
253 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
254
2550.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
256 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
257 patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
258 - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
259
2600.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
261 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
262 could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
263 error.
264 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
265 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
266 - implemented terminate with args + join.
267
2680.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
269 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
270 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
271 in various modules.
272 - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
273 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
274
2750.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
276 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
277 inside Coro::Handle.
278 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
279 speed reasons.
280 - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
281 sjlj and ucontext should now work.
282 - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
283 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
284 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
285 - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
286 under some circumstances.
287 - other bugfixes.
288
2890.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
290 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
291 - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
292 - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
293 - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
294 - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
295 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
296 syntax.
297 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
298 - new simple priority system.
299 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
300 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
301
3020.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
303 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
304 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
305 (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
306 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
307 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
308 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
309 "Callback called exit" messages).
310 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
311 - much better Coro::Socket support.
312
3130.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
314 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
315 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
316 should work well in practise ;)
317 - added Coro::RWLock.
318 - Coro::Specific now works.
319
3200.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
321 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
322 - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
323 - new module Coro::Socket.
324
3250.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
4 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :( 326 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
5 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement 327 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
6 for yield. 328 for yield.
7 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C 329 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
8 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State. 330 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
15 - canceling events now works in all cases. 337 - canceling events now works in all cases.
16 - Coro state now include $_ and $@. 338 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
17 - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :( 339 - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
18 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do 340 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
19 non-blocking i/o. 341 non-blocking i/o.
342 - performance tuning.
20 343
210.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001 3440.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
22 - release candidate 2 (new functionality). 345 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
23 - add Coro::State::flush function. 346 - add Coro::State::flush function.
24 - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM). 347 - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).

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