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Revision 1.75 by root, Sat Mar 29 14:09:14 2003 UTC vs.
Revision 1.244 by root, Wed Sep 26 19:26:48 2007 UTC

1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2
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
103.8
11 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
12 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
13 debugging, tracing and much more.
14 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
15 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
16 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
17 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
18 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
19 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
20 - many minor tweaks.
21
223.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
23 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
24
253.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
26 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
27 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
28
293.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
30 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
31 pst's sometimes.
32 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
33 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
34 be threadsafe...).
35 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
36 but stateful semantics.
37 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
38 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
39
403.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
41 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
42 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
43 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
44 (EXPERIMENTAL).
45 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
46 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
47 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
48 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
49
503.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
51 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
52 it by default.
53 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
54 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
55 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
56 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
57 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
58 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
59 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
60 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
61 performance.
62
633.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
64 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
65 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
66
673.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
68 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
69 them without asking.
70
713.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
72 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
73 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
74 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
75 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
76 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
77 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
78
793.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
80 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
81 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
82 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
83 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
84 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
85 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
86 obsolete platforms.
87
883.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
89 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
90 but was rather flaky in practise.
91 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
92 it was reused.
93 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
94 in cede_notself.
95
963.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
97 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
98 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
99 documented and - hopefully - improved.
100 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
101 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
102 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
103 that could errronously trigger.
104 - fix various large and small memleaks.
105 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
106 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
107 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
108 - added Coro::guard function.
109 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
110 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
111 and 128k coros with async_pool).
112 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
113
1143.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
115 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
116 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
117 - simplify configuration for users.
118 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
119 their coro replacements.
120
1213.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
122 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
123 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
124 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
125 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
126 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
127 - save/restore tainted status.
128 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
129
1303.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
131 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
132 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
133 - give a better error message on deadlock.
134 - document Coro::nready.
135 - enhanced testsuite.
136
1373.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
138 - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
139
1403.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
141 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
142 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
143 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
144 pool (size currently hardcoded).
145 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
146 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
147 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
148 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
149 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
150 check for changed watchers.
151 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
152 per event.
153 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
154 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
155 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
156 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
157 some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
158 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
159 directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
160 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
161 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
162 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
163 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
164 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
165 - updated to newest libcoro.
166 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
167 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
168 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
169 and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
170 if somebody asks for it :)
171 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
172 spuriously without the event having happened.
173
1742.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
175 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
176 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
177 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
178 make LWP non-blocking.
179 - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
180 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
181 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
182 - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
183 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
184 - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
185 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
186 by LWP(!!).
187 - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
188 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
189 kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
190 did already.
191
1922.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
193 - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
194 zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
195 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
196 (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
197 - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
198 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
199 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
200 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
201
2022.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
203 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
204
2051.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
206
2071.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
208 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
209 mark & sweep gc run.
210 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
211
2121.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
213 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
214 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
215
2161.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
217 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
218 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
219 wrong package.
220 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
221 perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
222 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
223 normally uses.
224 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
225
2261.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
227 - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
228
2291.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
230 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
231 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
232 - strict'ify some modules.
233 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
234 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
235 - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
236
2371.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
238 - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
239 when 'l'inux method was used.
240
2411.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
242 - some portability fixes/workarounds.
243
2441.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
245 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
246 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
247 Coro::State::flush method.
248 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
249
2501.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
251 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
252 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
253 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
254 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
255 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
256
2571.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
258 - change of contact address.
259
2601.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
261 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
262 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
263
2641.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
265 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
266 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
267 padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
268
2690.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
270 - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
271
2720.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
273 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
274 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
275 as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
276 Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
277 between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
278 fixable).
279 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
280
2810.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
282 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
283 faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
284 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
285 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
286 observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
287 of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
288 pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
289 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
290 - fix for threaded perl.
291
2920.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
293 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
294 memory leaks.
295 - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
296 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
297 hopefully ignoring it "just works".
298
2990.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
300 - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
301 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
302
3030.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
304 - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
305 of new features.
306 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
307 Highly correct stuff, that is...
308 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
309 the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
310
3110.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
312 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
313 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
314 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
315 so preselect it.
2 316
30.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003 3170.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
4 - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost 318 - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
5 on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net. 319 on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
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