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Revision 1.182 by root, Tue Dec 12 13:56:45 2006 UTC vs.
Revision 1.285 by root, Sat Oct 27 15:08:40 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)).
4 7
53.2 8 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
9 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
10 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
11 - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
12 does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
13 - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
14 stuff in Coro::Util.
15
164.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
17 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
18 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
19 $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
20 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
21 instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
22 This also catches recursive invocations.
23 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
24
254.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
26 - port to threaded perls.
27
284.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
29 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
30 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
31 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
32 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
33 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
34 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
35 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
36 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
37 speeds up context switching a bit.
38 - further tune default stack sizes.
39 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
40 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
41 resulting in races between coroutines.
42 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
43 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
44 an unrelated coroutine.
45 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
46 more detail in Coro::State.
47 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
48 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
49 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
50 invalidating pointers.
51
524.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
53 - added Coro::throw method.
54 - minor code cleanups.
55
564.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
57 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
58 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
59 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
60 or use tracing).
61 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
62 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
63 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
64
654.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
66 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
67 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
68
694.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
70 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
71 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
72 debugging, tracing and much more.
73 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
74 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
75 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
76 flags.
77 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
78 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
79 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
80 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
81 - added Coro::killall.
82 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
83 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
84 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
85 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
86 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
87 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
88 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
89 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
90 - many minor tweaks.
91
923.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
93 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
94
953.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
96 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
97 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
98
993.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
100 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
101 pst's sometimes.
102 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
103 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
104 be threadsafe...).
105 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
106 but stateful semantics.
107 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
108 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
109
1103.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
111 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
112 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
113 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
114 (EXPERIMENTAL).
115 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
116 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
117 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
118 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
119
1203.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
121 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
122 it by default.
123 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
124 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
125 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
126 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
127 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
128 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
129 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
130 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
131 performance.
132
1333.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
134 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
135 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
136
1373.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
138 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
139 them without asking.
140
1413.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
142 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
143 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
144 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
145 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
146 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
147 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
148
1493.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
150 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
151 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
152 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
153 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
154 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
155 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
156 obsolete platforms.
157
1583.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
159 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
160 but was rather flaky in practise.
161 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
162 it was reused.
163 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
164 in cede_notself.
165
1663.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
167 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
168 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
169 documented and - hopefully - improved.
170 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
171 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
172 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
173 that could errronously trigger.
174 - fix various large and small memleaks.
175 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
176 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
177 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
178 - added Coro::guard function.
179 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
180 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
181 and 128k coros with async_pool).
182 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
183
1843.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
6 - improve portability to slightly older perls. 185 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
7 - use cleaner coroutine destruction. 186 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
8 - simplify configuration for users. 187 - simplify configuration for users.
9 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over 188 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
10 their coro replacements. 189 their coro replacements.

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