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Revision 1.94 by pcg, Fri May 14 13:25:08 2004 UTC vs.
Revision 1.247 by root, Mon Oct 1 23:54:36 2007 UTC

1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2
3TODO: destroy gets only called on cancel: fix(?)
4TODO: should explore PerlIO::via::CoroCede and PerlIO::via::CoroAIO.
5TODO: maybe implement a default message channel, very much like Erlang
6 (which is cool in a lot of important aspects (failures!),
7 but very lacking in others (higher level ipc)).
8
93.8
10 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
11 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
12 debugging, tracing and much more.
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 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
20 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
21 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
22 - enable assembly method per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
23 - many minor tweaks.
24
253.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
26 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
27
283.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
29 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
30 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
31
323.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
33 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
34 pst's sometimes.
35 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
36 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
37 be threadsafe...).
38 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
39 but stateful semantics.
40 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
41 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
42
433.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
44 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
45 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
46 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
47 (EXPERIMENTAL).
48 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
49 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
50 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
51 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
52
533.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
54 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
55 it by default.
56 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
57 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
58 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
59 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
60 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
61 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
62 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
63 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
64 performance.
65
663.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
67 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
68 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
69
703.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
71 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
72 them without asking.
73
743.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
75 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
76 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
77 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
78 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
79 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
80 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
81
823.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
83 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
84 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
85 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
86 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
87 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
88 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
89 obsolete platforms.
90
913.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
92 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
93 but was rather flaky in practise.
94 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
95 it was reused.
96 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
97 in cede_notself.
98
993.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
100 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
101 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
102 documented and - hopefully - improved.
103 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
104 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
105 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
106 that could errronously trigger.
107 - fix various large and small memleaks.
108 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
109 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
110 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
111 - added Coro::guard function.
112 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
113 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
114 and 128k coros with async_pool).
115 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
116
1173.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
118 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
119 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
120 - simplify configuration for users.
121 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
122 their coro replacements.
123
1243.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
125 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
126 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
127 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
128 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
129 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
130 - save/restore tainted status.
131 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
132
1333.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
134 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
135 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
136 - give a better error message on deadlock.
137 - document Coro::nready.
138 - enhanced testsuite.
139
1403.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
141 - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
142
1433.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
144 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
145 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
146 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
147 pool (size currently hardcoded).
148 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
149 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
150 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
151 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
152 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
153 check for changed watchers.
154 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
155 per event.
156 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
157 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
158 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
159 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
160 some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
161 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
162 directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
163 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
164 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
165 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
166 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
167 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
168 - updated to newest libcoro.
169 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
170 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
171 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
172 and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
173 if somebody asks for it :)
174 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
175 spuriously without the event having happened.
176
1772.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
178 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
179 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
180 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
181 make LWP non-blocking.
182 - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
183 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
184 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
185 - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
186 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
187 - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
188 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
189 by LWP(!!).
190 - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
191 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
192 kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
193 did already.
194
1952.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
196 - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
197 zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
198 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
199 (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
200 - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
201 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
202 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
203 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
204
2052.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
206 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
207
2081.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
209
2101.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
211 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
212 mark & sweep gc run.
213 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
214
2151.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
216 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
217 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
218
2191.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
220 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
221 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
222 wrong package.
223 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
224 perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
225 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
226 normally uses.
227 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
228
2291.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
230 - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
231
2321.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
233 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
234 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
235 - strict'ify some modules.
236 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
237 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
238 - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
239
2401.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
241 - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
242 when 'l'inux method was used.
243
2441.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
245 - some portability fixes/workarounds.
246
2471.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
248 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
249 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
250 Coro::State::flush method.
251 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
252
2531.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
254 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
255 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
256 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
257 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
258 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
259
2601.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
261 - change of contact address.
262
2631.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
264 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
265 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
266
2671.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
268 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
269 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
270 padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
2 271
30.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004 2720.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
4 - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway. 273 - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
5 274
60.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004 2750.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
7 - tell people if they have yet anothe rbroken Event variant. 276 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
8 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long 277 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
9 as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine. 278 as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
10 Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking 279 Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
11 between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily 280 between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
12 fixable). 281 fixable).

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