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Revision 1.182 by root, Tue Dec 12 13:56:45 2006 UTC vs.
Revision 1.270 by root, Tue Oct 9 02:15:58 2007 UTC

1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
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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)).
4 7
53.2 84.1
9 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
10 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
11 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
12 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
13 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
14 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
15 speeds up context switching a bit.
16 - further tune default stack sizes.
17 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
18 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
19 resulting in races between coroutines.
20 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
21 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
22 an unrelated coroutine.
23 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
24 more detail in Coro::State.
25 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
26 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
27
284.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
29 - added Coro::throw method.
30 - minor code cleanups.
31
324.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
33 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
34 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
35 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
36 or use tracing).
37 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
38 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
39 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
40
414.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
42 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
43 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
44
454.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
46 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
47 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
48 debugging, tracing and much more.
49 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
50 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
51 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
52 flags.
53 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
54 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
55 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
56 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
57 - added Coro::killall.
58 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
59 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
60 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
61 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
62 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
63 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
64 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
65 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
66 - many minor tweaks.
67
683.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
69 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
70
713.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
72 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
73 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
74
753.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
76 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
77 pst's sometimes.
78 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
79 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
80 be threadsafe...).
81 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
82 but stateful semantics.
83 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
84 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
85
863.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
87 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
88 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
89 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
90 (EXPERIMENTAL).
91 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
92 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
93 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
94 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
95
963.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
97 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
98 it by default.
99 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
100 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
101 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
102 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
103 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
104 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
105 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
106 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
107 performance.
108
1093.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
110 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
111 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
112
1133.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
114 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
115 them without asking.
116
1173.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
118 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
119 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
120 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
121 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
122 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
123 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
124
1253.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
126 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
127 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
128 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
129 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
130 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
131 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
132 obsolete platforms.
133
1343.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
135 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
136 but was rather flaky in practise.
137 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
138 it was reused.
139 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
140 in cede_notself.
141
1423.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
143 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
144 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
145 documented and - hopefully - improved.
146 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
147 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
148 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
149 that could errronously trigger.
150 - fix various large and small memleaks.
151 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
152 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
153 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
154 - added Coro::guard function.
155 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
156 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
157 and 128k coros with async_pool).
158 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
159
1603.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
6 - improve portability to slightly older perls. 161 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
7 - use cleaner coroutine destruction. 162 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
8 - simplify configuration for users. 163 - simplify configuration for users.
9 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over 164 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
10 their coro replacements. 165 their coro replacements.

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