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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: destroy gets only called on cancel: fix(?) 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)).
5 7
63.3 84.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
9 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
10 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
11 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
12 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
13 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
14 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
15 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
16 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
17 speeds up context switching a bit.
18 - further tune default stack sizes.
19 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
20 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
21 resulting in races between coroutines.
22 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
23 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
24 an unrelated coroutine.
25 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
26 more detail in Coro::State.
27 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
28 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
29 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
30 invalidating pointers.
31
324.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
33 - added Coro::throw method.
34 - minor code cleanups.
35
364.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
37 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
38 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
39 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
40 or use tracing).
41 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
42 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
43 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
44
454.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
46 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
47 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
48
494.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
50 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
51 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
52 debugging, tracing and much more.
53 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
54 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
55 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
56 flags.
57 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
58 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
59 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
60 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
61 - added Coro::killall.
62 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
63 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
64 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
65 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
66 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
67 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
68 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
69 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
70 - many minor tweaks.
71
723.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
73 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
74
753.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
76 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
77 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
78
793.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
80 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
81 pst's sometimes.
82 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
83 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
84 be threadsafe...).
85 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
86 but stateful semantics.
87 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
88 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
89
903.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
91 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
92 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
93 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
94 (EXPERIMENTAL).
95 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
96 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
97 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
98 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
99
1003.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
101 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
102 it by default.
103 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
104 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
105 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
106 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
107 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
108 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
109 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
110 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
111 performance.
112
1133.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
114 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
115 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
116
1173.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
118 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
119 them without asking.
120
1213.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
122 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
123 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
124 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
125 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
126 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
127 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
128
1293.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
130 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
131 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
132 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
133 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
134 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
135 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
136 obsolete platforms.
137
1383.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
139 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
140 but was rather flaky in practise.
141 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
142 it was reused.
143 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
144 in cede_notself.
145
1463.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
7 - implement $coro->on_destroy. 147 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
8 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed, 148 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
9 documented and - hopefully - improved. 149 documented and - hopefully - improved.
10 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority. 150 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
11 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds). 151 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
12 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te") 152 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
13 that could errronously trigger. 153 that could errronously trigger.
154 - fix various large and small memleaks.
14 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation 155 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
15 that immediately frees the coroutine data. 156 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
157 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
16 - added Coro::guard function. 158 - added Coro::guard function.
159 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
160 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
161 and 128k coros with async_pool).
162 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
17 163
183.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006 1643.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
19 - improve portability to slightly older perls. 165 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
20 - use cleaner coroutine destruction. 166 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
21 - simplify configuration for users. 167 - simplify configuration for users.

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