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Revision 1.185 by root, Mon Dec 25 13:25:55 2006 UTC vs.
Revision 1.287 by root, Mon Oct 29 19:13:56 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
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 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
16 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
17
184.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
19 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
20 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
21 $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
22 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
23 instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
24 This also catches recursive invocations.
25 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
26
274.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
28 - port to threaded perls.
29
304.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
31 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
32 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
33 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
34 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
35 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
36 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
37 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
38 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
39 speeds up context switching a bit.
40 - further tune default stack sizes.
41 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
42 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
43 resulting in races between coroutines.
44 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
45 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
46 an unrelated coroutine.
47 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
48 more detail in Coro::State.
49 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
50 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
51 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
52 invalidating pointers.
53
544.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
55 - added Coro::throw method.
56 - minor code cleanups.
57
584.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
59 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
60 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
61 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
62 or use tracing).
63 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
64 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
65 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
66
674.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
68 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
69 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
70
714.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
72 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
73 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
74 debugging, tracing and much more.
75 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
76 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
77 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
78 flags.
79 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
80 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
81 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
82 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
83 - added Coro::killall.
84 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
85 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
86 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
87 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
88 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
89 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
90 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
91 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
92 - many minor tweaks.
93
943.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
95 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
96
973.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
98 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
99 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
100
1013.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
102 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
103 pst's sometimes.
104 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
105 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
106 be threadsafe...).
107 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
108 but stateful semantics.
109 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
110 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
111
1123.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
113 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
114 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
115 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
116 (EXPERIMENTAL).
117 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
118 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
119 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
120 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
121
1223.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
123 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
124 it by default.
125 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
126 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
127 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
128 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
129 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
130 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
131 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
132 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
133 performance.
134
1353.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
136 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
137 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
138
1393.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
140 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
141 them without asking.
142
1433.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
144 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
145 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
146 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
147 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
148 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
149 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
150
1513.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
152 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
153 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
154 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
155 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
156 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
157 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
158 obsolete platforms.
159
1603.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
161 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
162 but was rather flaky in practise.
163 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
164 it was reused.
165 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
166 in cede_notself.
167
1683.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
169 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
170 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
171 documented and - hopefully - improved.
5 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority. 172 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
6 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds). 173 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
174 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
175 that could errronously trigger.
176 - fix various large and small memleaks.
177 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
178 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
179 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
180 - added Coro::guard function.
181 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
182 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
183 and 128k coros with async_pool).
184 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
7 185
83.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006 1863.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
9 - improve portability to slightly older perls. 187 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
10 - use cleaner coroutine destruction. 188 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
11 - simplify configuration for users. 189 - simplify configuration for users.

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