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Revision 1.68 by root, Mon Feb 18 21:25:00 2002 UTC vs.
Revision 1.194 by root, Fri Jan 5 18:25:51 2007 UTC

1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2
3TODO: better (earlier) error messages on broken transfer's
4TODO: destroy gets only called on cancel: fix(?)
5
63.3
7 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
8 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
9 documented and - hopefully - improved.
10 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
11 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
12 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
13 that could errronously trigger.
14 - fix various large and small memleaks.
15 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
16 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
17 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
18 - added Coro::guard function.
19 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
20 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
21 and 128k coros with async_pool).
22
233.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
24 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
25 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
26 - simplify configuration for users.
27 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
28 their coro replacements.
29
303.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
31 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
32 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
33 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
34 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
35 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
36 - save/restore tainted status.
37 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
38
393.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
40 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
41 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
42 - give a better error message on deadlock.
43 - document Coro::nready.
44 - enhanced testsuite.
45
463.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
47 - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
48
493.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
50 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
51 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
52 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
53 pool (size currently hardcoded).
54 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
55 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
56 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
57 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
58 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
59 check for changed watchers.
60 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
61 per event.
62 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
63 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
64 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
65 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
66 some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
67 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
68 directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
69 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
70 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
71 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
72 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
73 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
74 - updated to newest libcoro.
75 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
76 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
77 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
78 and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
79 if somebody asks for it :)
80 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
81 spuriously without the event having happened.
82
832.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
84 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
85 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
86 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
87 make LWP non-blocking.
88 - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
89 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
90 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
91 - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
92 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
93 - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
94 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
95 by LWP(!!).
96 - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
97 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
98 kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
99 did already.
100
1012.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
102 - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
103 zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
104 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
105 (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
106 - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
107 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
108 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
109 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
110
1112.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
112 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
113
1141.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
115
1161.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
117 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
118 mark & sweep gc run.
119 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
120
1211.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
122 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
123 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
124
1251.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
126 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
127 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
128 wrong package.
129 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
130 perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
131 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
132 normally uses.
133 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
134
1351.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
136 - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
137
1381.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
139 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
140 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
141 - strict'ify some modules.
142 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
143 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
144 - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
145
1461.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
147 - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
148 when 'l'inux method was used.
149
1501.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
151 - some portability fixes/workarounds.
152
1531.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
154 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
155 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
156 Coro::State::flush method.
157 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
158
1591.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
160 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
161 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
162 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
163 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
164 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
165
1661.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
167 - change of contact address.
168
1691.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
170 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
171 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
172
1731.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
174 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
175 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
176 padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
177
1780.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
179 - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
180
1810.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
182 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
183 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
184 as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
185 Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
186 between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
187 fixable).
188 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
189
1900.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
191 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
192 faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
193 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
194 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
195 observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
196 of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
197 pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
198 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
199 - fix for threaded perl.
200
2010.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
202 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
203 memory leaks.
204 - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
205 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
206 hopefully ignoring it "just works".
207
2080.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
209 - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
210 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
211
2120.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
213 - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
214 of new features.
215 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
216 Highly correct stuff, that is...
217 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
218 the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
219
2200.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
221 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
222 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
223 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
224 so preselect it.
225
2260.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
227 - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
228 on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
229
2300.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
231 - added a README.linux-glibc.
232 - new module Coro::Select.
233 - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
234 (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
235 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
236
2370.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
238 - made lazy context switching the default.
239 - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
240 was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
241 - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
242 - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
243
2440.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
245 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
246 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
247 - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
248 ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
249 - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
250 of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
2 251
30.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002 2520.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
4 - adapt to finally working Event-0.85. 253 - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
5 - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how 254 - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
6 could it possibly have worked anywhere?) 255 could it possibly have worked anywhere?)

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