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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's
5 actor model (which is cool in a lot of important aspects (failures!),
6 but very lacking in others (higher level ipc)).
7
8 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported
9 by the Coro module. It was a mistake.
10 - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to,
11 actual impact unknown.
12
134.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008
14 - make it compile again on 5.8.
15
164.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008
17 - I did it twice! (see 4.49).
18
194.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008
20 - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they
21 were compiled on 5.8 only.
22
234.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
24 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
25 the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
26 (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
27 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
28
294.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
30 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
31 and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
32 leading to crashes and worse.
33 - document force_cctx.
34
354.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
36 - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
37 to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
38
394.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
40 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
41 downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
42 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
43 (also add testcase).
44 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
45 apparently having loads of fun with that).
46 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
47
484.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
49 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
50 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
51 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
52 - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
53 Andreas König.
54
554.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
56 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
57 "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
58
594.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
60 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
61 trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
62
634.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
64 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
65 from longmess and also skips the innermost
66 stackframes, giving more useufl output.
67 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
68 at a <1% speed hit.
69 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
70 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
71
724.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
73 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
74
754.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
76 - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
77
784.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
79 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
80 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
81 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
82
834.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
84 - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
85
864.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
87 - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
88 when the stack changed.
89 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
90 (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
91 if available.
92 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
93 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
94 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
95
964.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
97 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
98 and Coro::Handle.
99
1004.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
101 - fix a spurious memory read.
102 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
103
1044.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
105 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
106 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
107 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
108 - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
109 does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
110 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
111 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
112 directly supported by Coro.
113 - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
114 stuff in Coro::Util.
115 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
116 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
117 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
118
1194.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
120 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
121 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
122 $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
123 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
124 instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
125 This also catches recursive invocations.
126 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
127
1284.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
129 - port to threaded perls.
130
1314.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
132 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
133 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
134 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
135 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
136 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
137 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
138 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
139 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
140 speeds up context switching a bit.
141 - further tune default stack sizes.
142 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
143 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
144 resulting in races between coroutines.
145 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
146 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
147 an unrelated coroutine.
148 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
149 more detail in Coro::State.
150 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
151 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
152 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
153 invalidating pointers.
154
1554.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
156 - added Coro::throw method.
157 - minor code cleanups.
158
1594.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
160 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
161 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
162 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
163 or use tracing).
164 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
165 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
166 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
167
1684.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
169 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
170 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
171
1724.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
173 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
174 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
175 debugging, tracing and much more.
176 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
177 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
178 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
179 flags.
180 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
181 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
182 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
183 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
184 - added Coro::killall.
185 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
186 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
187 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
188 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
189 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
190 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
191 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
192 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
193 - many minor tweaks.
194
1953.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
196 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
197
1983.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
199 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
200 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
201
2023.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
203 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
204 pst's sometimes.
205 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
206 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
207 be threadsafe...).
208 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
209 but stateful semantics.
210 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
211 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
212
2133.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
214 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
215 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
216 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
217 (EXPERIMENTAL).
218 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
219 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
220 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
221 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
222
2233.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
224 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
225 it by default.
226 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
227 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
228 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
229 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
230 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
231 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
232 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
233 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
234 performance.
235
2363.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
237 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
238 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
239
2403.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
241 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
242 them without asking.
243
2443.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
245 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
246 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
247 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
248 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
249 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
250 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
251
2523.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
253 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
254 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
255 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
256 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
257 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
258 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
259 obsolete platforms.
260
2613.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
262 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
263 but was rather flaky in practise.
264 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
265 it was reused.
266 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
267 in cede_notself.
5 268
63.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007 2693.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
7 - implement $coro->on_destroy. 270 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
8 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed, 271 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
9 documented and - hopefully - improved. 272 documented and - hopefully - improved.

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