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1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
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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
5TODO: fast reloads in cf cause segfaults (coro_state_free->destroy->crash) 5 actor model (which is cool in a lot of important aspects (failures!),
6 but very lacking in others (higher level ipc)).
6 7
73.41 84.746 Sun Sep 21 03:22:20 CEST 2008
9 - be more insistent on locking Storable against reentrancy
10 in Coro::Storable.
11 - move swap_def?v and throw to Coro::State, as documented.
12
134.745 Thu Jul 24 00:14:38 CEST 2008
14 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to
15 make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves
16 outdated software). Reported by John S.
17
184.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008
19 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented.
20 - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current
21 implementations inside perl work fine for us.
22
234.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008
24 - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could
25 result in busy-waiting for events, this has been fixed.
26 - reduce codesize and improve performance by using EV_DEFAULT_UC.
27
284.742 Sat May 31 14:10:21 CEST 2008
29 - implement a workaround for (some) perl <5.8.8 versions.
30 - require EV 3.3+.
31
324.741 Fri May 30 23:33:09 CEST 2008
33 - tell netbsd how utterly broken their imitation of an OS is
34 and refuse to build by default if pthreads are in use.
35 - switch to "s" method on all bsd's by default, as their ucontext
36 stuff seems just too broken.
37 - fix a bug in Coro::Select.
38
394.74 Thu May 29 20:05:31 CEST 2008
40 - do not test Coro::LWP for lack of dependencies.
41 - do not test Coro::Select for lack of working perls.
42
434.73 Thu May 29 2008
44 - fix a bug in Coro::EV which would cause it to block despite
45 there being runnable coroutines.
46 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress
47 warnings for some other modules.
48 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
49
504.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008
51 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way
52 to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :(
53 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to
54 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...).
55 - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented
56 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage
57 of AnyEvent's workaround for that problem.
58 - use AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking in Coro::Handle to work around
59 a common perl implementation bug on windows.
60 - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around
61 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by
62 tcp sockets on windows. ugh.)
63
644.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008
65 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()").
66 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util.
67 - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP.
68 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother
69 scheduling.
70
714.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
72 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
73 - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
74 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
75 - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
76 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
77 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
78 use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
79
804.6 Sat Apr 26 10:05:14 CEST 2008
81 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported
82 by the Coro module. It was a mistake to have it in the first place.
83 - (experimental) support for activestate perl 5.10 (method "w").
84 - (experimental) support for strawberry perl (method "a").
85 - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to,
86 actual impact unknown.
87
884.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008
89 - make it compile again on 5.8.
90
914.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008
92 - I did it twice! (see 4.49).
93
944.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008
95 - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they
96 were compiled on 5.8 only.
97
984.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
99 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
100 the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
101 (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
102 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
103
1044.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
105 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
106 and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
107 leading to crashes and worse.
108 - document force_cctx.
109
1104.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
111 - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
112 to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
113
1144.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
115 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
116 downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
117 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
118 (also add testcase).
119 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
120 apparently having loads of fun with that).
121 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
122
1234.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
124 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
125 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
126 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
127 - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
128 Andreas König.
129
1304.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
131 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
132 "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
133
1344.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
135 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
136 trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
137
1384.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
139 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
140 from longmess and also skips the innermost
141 stackframes, giving more useufl output.
142 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
143 at a <1% speed hit.
144 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
145 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
146
1474.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
148 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
149
1504.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
151 - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
152
1534.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
154 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
155 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
156 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
157
1584.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
159 - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
160
1614.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
162 - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
163 when the stack changed.
164 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
165 (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
166 if available.
167 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
168 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
169 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
170
1714.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
172 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
173 and Coro::Handle.
174
1754.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
176 - fix a spurious memory read.
177 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
178
1794.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
180 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
181 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
182 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
183 - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
184 does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
185 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
186 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
187 directly supported by Coro.
188 - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
189 stuff in Coro::Util.
190 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
191 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
192 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
193
1944.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
195 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
196 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
197 $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
198 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
199 instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
200 This also catches recursive invocations.
201 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
202
2034.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
204 - port to threaded perls.
205
2064.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
207 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
208 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
209 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
210 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
211 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
212 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
213 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
214 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
215 speeds up context switching a bit.
216 - further tune default stack sizes.
217 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
218 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
219 resulting in races between coroutines.
220 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
221 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
222 an unrelated coroutine.
223 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
224 more detail in Coro::State.
225 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
226 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
227 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
228 invalidating pointers.
229
2304.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
231 - added Coro::throw method.
232 - minor code cleanups.
233
2344.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
235 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
236 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
237 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
238 or use tracing).
239 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
240 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
241 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
242
2434.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
244 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
245 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
246
2474.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
248 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
249 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
250 debugging, tracing and much more.
251 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
252 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
253 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
254 flags.
255 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
256 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
257 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
258 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
259 - added Coro::killall.
260 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
261 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
262 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
263 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
264 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
265 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
266 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
267 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
268 - many minor tweaks.
269
2703.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
271 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
272
2733.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
274 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
275 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
276
2773.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
278 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
279 pst's sometimes.
280 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
281 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
282 be threadsafe...).
283 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
284 but stateful semantics.
285 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
286 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
287
2883.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
289 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
290 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
291 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
292 (EXPERIMENTAL).
293 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
294 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
295 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
296 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
297
2983.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
299 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
300 it by default.
301 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
302 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
303 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
304 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
305 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
306 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
307 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
308 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
309 performance.
310
3113.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
312 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
313 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
314
3153.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
316 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
317 them without asking.
318
3193.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
320 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
321 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
322 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
323 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
324 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
325 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
326
3273.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
8 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/, 328 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
9 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error. 329 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
330 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
331 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
332 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
333 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
334 obsolete platforms.
10 335
113.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007 3363.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
12 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much 337 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
13 but was rather flaky in practise. 338 but was rather flaky in practise.
14 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until 339 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until

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