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Revision 1.197 by root, Mon Jan 8 01:21:23 2007 UTC vs.
Revision 1.292 by root, Sun Nov 25 09:49:30 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: 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
84.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
9 - fix a spurious memory read.
10 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
11
124.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
13 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
14 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
15 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
16 - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
17 does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
18 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
19 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
20 directly supported by Coro.
21 - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
22 stuff in Coro::Util.
23 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
24 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
25 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
26
274.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
28 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
29 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
30 $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
31 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
32 instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
33 This also catches recursive invocations.
34 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
35
364.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
37 - port to threaded perls.
38
394.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
40 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
41 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
42 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
43 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
44 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
45 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
46 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
47 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
48 speeds up context switching a bit.
49 - further tune default stack sizes.
50 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
51 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
52 resulting in races between coroutines.
53 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
54 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
55 an unrelated coroutine.
56 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
57 more detail in Coro::State.
58 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
59 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
60 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
61 invalidating pointers.
62
634.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
64 - added Coro::throw method.
65 - minor code cleanups.
66
674.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
68 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
69 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
70 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
71 or use tracing).
72 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
73 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
74 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
75
764.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
77 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
78 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
79
804.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
81 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
82 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
83 debugging, tracing and much more.
84 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
85 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
86 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
87 flags.
88 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
89 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
90 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
91 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
92 - added Coro::killall.
93 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
94 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
95 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
96 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
97 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
98 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
99 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
100 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
101 - many minor tweaks.
102
1033.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
104 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
105
1063.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
107 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
108 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
109
1103.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
111 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
112 pst's sometimes.
113 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
114 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
115 be threadsafe...).
116 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
117 but stateful semantics.
118 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
119 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
120
1213.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
122 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
123 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
124 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
125 (EXPERIMENTAL).
126 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
127 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
128 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
129 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
130
1313.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
132 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
133 it by default.
134 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
135 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
136 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
137 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
138 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
139 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
140 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
141 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
142 performance.
143
1443.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
145 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
146 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
147
1483.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
149 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
150 them without asking.
151
1523.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
153 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
154 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
155 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
156 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
157 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
158 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
159
1603.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
161 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
162 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
163 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
164 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
165 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
166 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
167 obsolete platforms.
168
1693.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
6 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much 170 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
7 but was rather flaky in practise. 171 but was rather flaky in practise.
172 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
173 it was reused.
174 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
175 in cede_notself.
8 176
93.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007 1773.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
10 - implement $coro->on_destroy. 178 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
11 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed, 179 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
12 documented and - hopefully - improved. 180 documented and - hopefully - improved.

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