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1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
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30.534 3TODO: better (earlier) error messages on broken transfer's
4TODO: destroy gets only called on cancel: fix(?)
5TODO: should explore PerlIO::via::CoroCede and PerlIO::via::CoroAIO.
6TODO: maybe implement a default message channel, very much like Erlang
7 (which is cool in a lot of important aspects (failures!),
8 but very lacking in others).
9
103.7
11 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
12 - added Coro::Debug, interactive coroutine debugging.
13 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
14 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
15 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
16 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
17 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
18 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
19 - many minor tweaks.
20
213.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
22 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
23
243.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
25 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
26 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
27
283.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
29 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
30 pst's sometimes.
31 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
32 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
33 be threadsafe...).
34 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
35 but stateful semantics.
36 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
37 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
38
393.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
40 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
41 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
42 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
43 (EXPERIMENTAL).
44 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
45 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
46 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
47 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
48
493.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
50 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
51 it by default.
52 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
53 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
54 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
55 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
56 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
57 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
58 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
59 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
60 performance.
61
623.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
63 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
64 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
65
663.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
67 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
68 them without asking.
69
703.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
71 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
72 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
73 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
74 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
75 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
76 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
77
783.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
79 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
80 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
81 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
82 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
83 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
84 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
85 obsolete platforms.
86
873.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
88 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
89 but was rather flaky in practise.
90 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
91 it was reused.
92 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
93 in cede_notself.
94
953.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
96 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
97 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
98 documented and - hopefully - improved.
99 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
100 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
101 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
102 that could errronously trigger.
103 - fix various large and small memleaks.
104 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
105 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
106 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
107 - added Coro::guard function.
108 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
109 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
110 and 128k coros with async_pool).
111 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
112
1133.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
114 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
115 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
116 - simplify configuration for users.
117 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
118 their coro replacements.
119
1203.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
121 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
122 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
123 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
124 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
125 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
126 - save/restore tainted status.
127 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
128
1293.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
130 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
131 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
132 - give a better error message on deadlock.
133 - document Coro::nready.
134 - enhanced testsuite.
135
1363.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
137 - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
138
1393.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
140 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
141 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
142 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
143 pool (size currently hardcoded).
144 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
145 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
146 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
147 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
148 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
149 check for changed watchers.
150 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
151 per event.
152 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
153 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
154 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
155 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
156 some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
157 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
158 directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
159 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
160 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
161 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
162 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
163 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
164 - updated to newest libcoro.
165 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
166 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
167 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
168 and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
169 if somebody asks for it :)
170 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
171 spuriously without the event having happened.
172
1732.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
174 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
175 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
176 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
177 make LWP non-blocking.
178 - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
179 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
180 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
181 - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
182 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
183 - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
184 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
185 by LWP(!!).
186 - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
187 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
188 kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
189 did already.
190
1912.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
192 - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
193 zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
194 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
195 (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
196 - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
197 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
198 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
199 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
200
2012.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
202 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
203
2041.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
205
2061.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
207 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
208 mark & sweep gc run.
209 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
210
2111.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
212 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
213 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
214
2151.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
216 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
217 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
218 wrong package.
219 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
220 perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
221 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
222 normally uses.
223 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
224
2251.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
226 - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
227
2281.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
229 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
230 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
231 - strict'ify some modules.
232 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
233 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
234 - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
235
2361.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
237 - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
238 when 'l'inux method was used.
239
2401.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
241 - some portability fixes/workarounds.
242
2431.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
244 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
245 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
246 Coro::State::flush method.
247 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
248
2491.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
250 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
251 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
252 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
253 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
254 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
255
2561.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
257 - change of contact address.
258
2591.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
260 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
261 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
262
2631.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
264 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
265 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
266 padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
267
2680.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
269 - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
270
2710.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
272 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
273 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
274 as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
275 Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
276 between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
277 fixable).
278 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
279
2800.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
281 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
282 faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
283 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
284 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
285 observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
286 of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
287 pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
288 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
289 - fix for threaded perl.
290
2910.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
292 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
293 memory leaks.
294 - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
295 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
296 hopefully ignoring it "just works".
297
2980.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
299 - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
300 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
301
3020.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
303 - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
304 of new features.
305 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
306 Highly correct stuff, that is...
307 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
308 the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
309
3100.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
311 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
312 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
313 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
314 so preselect it.
315
3160.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
317 - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
318 on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
319
3200.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
321 - added a README.linux-glibc.
322 - new module Coro::Select.
323 - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
324 (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
325 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
326
3270.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
328 - made lazy context switching the default.
329 - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
330 was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
331 - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
332 - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
333
3340.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
4 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd). 335 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
336 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
337 - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
338 ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
339 - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
340 of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
5 341
60.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002 3420.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
7 - adapt to finally working Event-0.85. 343 - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
8 - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how 344 - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
9 could it possibly have worked anywhere?) 345 could it possibly have worked anywhere?)

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