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Revision 1.188 by root, Fri Dec 29 11:37:49 2006 UTC vs.
Revision 1.301 by root, Thu Dec 13 05:15:27 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 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
9
104.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
11 - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
12
134.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
14 - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
15 when the stack changed.
16 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
17 (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
18 if available.
19 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
20 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
21 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
22
234.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
24 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
25 and Coro::Handle.
26
274.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
28 - fix a spurious memory read.
29 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
30
314.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
32 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
33 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
34 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
35 - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
36 does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
37 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
38 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
39 directly supported by Coro.
40 - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
41 stuff in Coro::Util.
42 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
43 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
44 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
45
464.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
47 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
48 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
49 $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
50 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
51 instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
52 This also catches recursive invocations.
53 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
54
554.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
56 - port to threaded perls.
57
584.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
59 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
60 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
61 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
62 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
63 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
64 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
65 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
66 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
67 speeds up context switching a bit.
68 - further tune default stack sizes.
69 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
70 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
71 resulting in races between coroutines.
72 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
73 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
74 an unrelated coroutine.
75 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
76 more detail in Coro::State.
77 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
78 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
79 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
80 invalidating pointers.
81
824.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
83 - added Coro::throw method.
84 - minor code cleanups.
85
864.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
87 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
88 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
89 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
90 or use tracing).
91 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
92 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
93 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
94
954.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
96 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
97 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
98
994.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
100 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
101 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
102 debugging, tracing and much more.
103 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
104 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
105 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
106 flags.
107 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
108 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
109 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
110 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
111 - added Coro::killall.
112 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
113 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
114 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
115 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
116 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
117 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
118 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
119 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
120 - many minor tweaks.
121
1223.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
123 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
124
1253.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
126 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
127 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
128
1293.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
130 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
131 pst's sometimes.
132 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
133 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
134 be threadsafe...).
135 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
136 but stateful semantics.
137 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
138 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
139
1403.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
141 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
142 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
143 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
144 (EXPERIMENTAL).
145 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
146 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
147 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
148 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
149
1503.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
151 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
152 it by default.
153 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
154 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
155 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
156 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
157 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
158 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
159 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
160 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
161 performance.
162
1633.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
164 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
165 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
166
1673.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
168 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
169 them without asking.
170
1713.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
172 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
173 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
174 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
175 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
176 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
177 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
178
1793.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
180 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
181 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
182 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
183 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
184 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
185 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
186 obsolete platforms.
187
1883.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
189 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
190 but was rather flaky in practise.
191 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
192 it was reused.
193 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
194 in cede_notself.
195
1963.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
5 - implement $coro->on_destroy. 197 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
6 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed, 198 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
7 documented and - hopefully - improved. 199 documented and - hopefully - improved.
8 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority. 200 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
9 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds). 201 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
202 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
203 that could errronously trigger.
204 - fix various large and small memleaks.
205 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
206 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
207 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
208 - added Coro::guard function.
209 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
210 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
211 and 128k coros with async_pool).
212 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
10 213
113.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006 2143.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
12 - improve portability to slightly older perls. 215 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
13 - use cleaner coroutine destruction. 216 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
14 - simplify configuration for users. 217 - simplify configuration for users.

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