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Revision 1.218 by root, Fri Apr 13 03:57:14 2007 UTC vs.
Revision 1.344 by root, Sat May 10 00:13:18 2008 UTC

1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2 2
3TODO: better (earlier) error messages on broken transfer's
4TODO: destroy gets only called on cancel: fix(?)
5TODO: exit in a coroutine should somehow do the real thing. but how?
6TODO: should explore PerlIO::via::CoroCede and PerlIO::via::CoroAIO. 3TODO: should explore PerlIO::via::CoroCede and PerlIO::via::CoroAIO.
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 7
8 TODO: AnyEvent provide detetc hook
9 TODO: Coro::AnyEvent
10 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
11 - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
12 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
13 - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
14 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
15
164.6 Sat Apr 26 10:05:14 CEST 2008
17 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported
18 by the Coro module. It was a mistake to have it in the first place.
19 - (experimental) support for activestate perl 5.10 (method "w").
20 - (experimental) support for strawberry perl (method "a").
21 - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to,
22 actual impact unknown.
23
244.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008
25 - make it compile again on 5.8.
26
274.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008
28 - I did it twice! (see 4.49).
29
304.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008
31 - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they
32 were compiled on 5.8 only.
33
344.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
35 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
36 the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
37 (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
38 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
39
404.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
41 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
42 and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
43 leading to crashes and worse.
44 - document force_cctx.
45
464.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
47 - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
48 to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
49
504.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
51 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
52 downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
53 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
54 (also add testcase).
55 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
56 apparently having loads of fun with that).
57 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
58
594.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
60 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
61 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
62 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
63 - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
64 Andreas König.
65
664.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
67 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
68 "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
69
704.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
71 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
72 trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
73
744.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
75 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
76 from longmess and also skips the innermost
77 stackframes, giving more useufl output.
78 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
79 at a <1% speed hit.
80 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
81 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
82
834.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
84 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
85
864.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
87 - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
88
894.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
90 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
91 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
92 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
93
944.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
95 - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
96
974.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
98 - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
99 when the stack changed.
100 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
101 (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
102 if available.
103 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
104 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
105 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
106
1074.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
108 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
109 and Coro::Handle.
110
1114.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
112 - fix a spurious memory read.
113 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
114
1154.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
116 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
117 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
118 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
119 - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
120 does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
121 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
122 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
123 directly supported by Coro.
124 - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
125 stuff in Coro::Util.
126 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
127 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
128 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
129
1304.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
131 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
132 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
133 $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
134 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
135 instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
136 This also catches recursive invocations.
137 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
138
1394.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
140 - port to threaded perls.
141
1424.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
143 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
144 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
145 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
146 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
147 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
148 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
149 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
150 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
151 speeds up context switching a bit.
152 - further tune default stack sizes.
153 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
154 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
155 resulting in races between coroutines.
156 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
157 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
158 an unrelated coroutine.
159 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
160 more detail in Coro::State.
161 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
162 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
163 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
164 invalidating pointers.
165
1664.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
167 - added Coro::throw method.
168 - minor code cleanups.
169
1704.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
171 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
172 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
173 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
174 or use tracing).
175 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
176 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
177 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
178
1794.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
180 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
181 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
182
1834.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
184 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
185 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
186 debugging, tracing and much more.
187 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
188 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
189 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
190 flags.
191 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
192 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
193 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
194 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
195 - added Coro::killall.
196 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
197 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
198 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
199 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
200 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
201 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
202 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
203 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
204 - many minor tweaks.
205
2063.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
207 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
208
2093.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
210 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
211 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
212
2133.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
214 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
215 pst's sometimes.
216 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
217 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
218 be threadsafe...).
219 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
220 but stateful semantics.
221 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
222 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
223
2243.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
8 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again. 225 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
9 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw. 226 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
227 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
228 (EXPERIMENTAL).
229 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
230 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
231 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
232 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
10 233
113.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007 2343.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
12 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable 235 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
13 it by default. 236 it by default.
14 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle 237 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle

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