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1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2 2
3TODO: should explore PerlIO::via::CoroCede and PerlIO::via::CoroAIO. 3TODO: should explore PerlIO::coroaio (perl leaks like hell).
4TODO: maybe implement a default message channel, very much like Erlang 4TODO: maybe implement a default message channel, very much like Erlang's
5 (which is cool in a lot of important aspects (failures!), 5 actor model (which is cool in a lot of important aspects (failures!),
6 but very lacking in others (higher level ipc)). 6 but very lacking in others (higher level ipc)).
7
85.0
9 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
10 stability issues.
11 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
12 - removed timed_* functions - they were not being used anyways
13 and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
14 and were annoying to support anyways :)
15 - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem instead.
16 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
17 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
18 ("Attempt to unreference...").
19 - fix a disastrous bug in the readline optimisation
20 introduced in 4.801.
21 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
22 was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
23 would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where
24 it was available but waiters were still blocked).
25 - calling throw on a coroutine that is waiting for a semaphore will
26 no longer make it acquire the semaphore (and thus leak a count).
27 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported
28 anymore.
29 - new functions Coro::rouse_cb and Coro::rouse_wait for easier
30 conversion of callback-style to blocking-style.
31 - new methods $coro->schedule_to and ->cede_to, to specifically
32 schedule or cede to a specific coroutine.
33 - new function Coro::Semaphore::wait.
34 - use named constants in Coro::Channel (Richard Hundt).
35 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede,
36 transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but
37 more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of
38 entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from
39 those functions and atcually create new ones.
40 - take advantage of __builtin_frame_address on gcc.
41 - expose THX in coroapi (not sure whether this was a wise decision,
42 as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways).
43 - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes
44 it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS.
45 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a
46 factor of two.
47 - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a
48 factor of three.
49 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of
50 four and reduce its memory usage considerably.
51 - implement Coro::SemaphoreSet purely in terms of Coro::Semaphore,
52 for a nice speedup and vastly more correct behaviour. Also implement
53 a new method "sem" to get at the underlying semaphore object.
54 - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate
55 (in comparison) 20-40% speedup.
56 - used new SLF interface to reimplement Coro::Signal gaining
57 some unknown (because I was too lazy), but certain, speedup, and also
58 making signals reliable for the first time.
59 - used new SLF interface and other optimisations to speed up async_pool
60 by a factor of two. It also doesn't rely on perl's exception mechanism
61 to exit anymore. The overhead for terminating an async_pool, coro over
62 a normal async is now very small.
63 - sped up coroutine creation/destruction by 40%.
64 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years.
65 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
66 pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
67 - use new rouse functions to speed up and simplify Coro::BDB.
68 - make "prefer perl native functions" work with threaded perls.
69 - condense Coro::Debug ps output, hint at v and w flags.
70 - (libcoro) lots of minor cleanups and portability improvements.
71
724.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008
73 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
74 ("Attempt to unreference...").
75
764.912 Thu Nov 13 18:31:23 CET 2008
77 - minor cleanups.
78 - use much larger stacks on linux and perl < 5.8.8.
79 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server did not unlink the socket
80 when destroyed.
81
824.911 Tue Nov 11 04:26:17 CET 2008
83 - "port" to threaded perls.
84
854.91 Mon Nov 10 05:36:38 CET 2008
86 - the ->throw exception object no longer leaks.
87 - creating a new cctx leaked a scopestack entry (memleak).
88 - new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field
89 (unknown impact).
90 - calling ->throw on a not-yet-started coroutine should now work
91 instead of being ignored.
92 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
93 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
94 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
95
964.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008
97 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
98 - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
99 also speed it up considerably.
100 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
101 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
102 - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
103 - Coro::State::cctx_stacksize wasn't applied correctly.
104 - new function Coro::State::cctx_max_idle.
105 - the default max number of idle C contexts is now 4.
106 - (libcoro) try harder to get _setjmp/_longjmp.
107 - (libcoro) cleanup and extend the libcoro API to officially
108 allow the creation of empty source contexts.
109 - very experimental workaround for the totally broken netbsd platform.
110 - tried to hack around openbsd bugs.
111
1124.804 Wed Nov 5 16:36:00 CET 2008
113 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server would not create a non-blocking listening
114 socket, sometimes causing freezes.
115 - (libcoro) fix misaligned stack points for setjmp and assembly
116 methods, which can cause crashes on x86/x86_64 with a sufficiently
117 aggressive compiler.
118 - new function: Coro::Debug::new_tcp_server.
119 - move ->throw into the Coro class because it only works on coro objects.
120
1214.803 Mon Nov 3 17:16:12 CET 2008
122 - (libcoro) use a global asm statement to become independent of gcc
123 otpimisations for CORO_ASM (thanks to pippijn for the idea).
124 - try to workaround yet another broken bsd, this time dragonfly.
125
1264.802 Thu Oct 30 10:56:12 CET 2008
127 - support -fno-omit-frame-pointer on x86 with the assembly method.
128 - tune 01_unblock.t tests a bit.
129
1304.801 Wed Oct 22 18:33:37 CEST 2008
131 - improve readline speed for very long "lines".
132 - backport to 5.8.8.
133
1344.8 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
135 - new function Coro::AIO::aio_wait.
136 - Coro.:AIO and Coro::BDB now "use Coro::AnyEvent".
137 - greatly speed up and reduce memory usage of Coro::AIO requests.
138 - implement some other µ-optimisations.
139
1404.749 Mon Sep 29 14:40:12 CEST 2008
141 - port to slow and broken pseudo-threaded perls. (courtesy pippijn).
142
1434.748 Sat Sep 27 14:03:19 CEST 2008
144 - implement, but do not document, PerlIO::cede(granularity).
145 - Coro::Storable forgot to wrap Storable::pstore.
146 - work around the multitude of leaks and memory corruption
147 bugs in PerlIO::via by using our own C-level perliol. As a side
148 effect, Coro::Storable is now much, much, much faster.
149
1504.747 Tue Sep 23 01:59:41 CEST 2008
151 - fix a per-cv memleak (one empty array was leaked per
152 code reference).
153 - avoid a crash in coro->call|rss when the coroutine was already
154 destroyed (most noticably when using Coro::Debug::ps :)
155 - also protect *Storable::FILE.
156 - push up default storable granularity to 20ms.
157
1584.746 Sun Sep 21 03:22:20 CEST 2008
159 - be more insistent on locking Storable against reentrancy
160 in Coro::Storable.
161 - move swap_def?v and throw to Coro::State, as documented.
162
1634.745 Thu Jul 24 00:14:38 CEST 2008
164 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to
165 make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves
166 outdated software). Reported by John S.
167
1684.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008
169 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented.
170 - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current
171 implementations inside perl work fine for us.
172
1734.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008
174 - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could
175 result in busy-waiting for events, this has been fixed.
176 - reduce codesize and improve performance by using EV_DEFAULT_UC.
177
1784.742 Sat May 31 14:10:21 CEST 2008
179 - implement a workaround for (some) perl <5.8.8 versions.
180 - require EV 3.3+.
181
1824.741 Fri May 30 23:33:09 CEST 2008
183 - tell netbsd how utterly broken their imitation of an OS is
184 and refuse to build by default if pthreads are in use.
185 - switch to "s" method on all bsd's by default, as their ucontext
186 stuff seems just too broken.
187 - fix a bug in Coro::Select.
188
1894.74 Thu May 29 20:05:31 CEST 2008
190 - do not test Coro::LWP for lack of dependencies.
191 - do not test Coro::Select for lack of working perls.
192
1934.73 Thu May 29 2008
194 - fix a bug in Coro::EV which would cause it to block despite
195 there being runnable coroutines.
196 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress
197 warnings for some other modules.
198 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
199
2004.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008
201 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way
202 to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :(
203 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to
204 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...).
205 - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented
206 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage
207 of AnyEvent's workaround for that problem.
208 - use AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking in Coro::Handle to work around
209 a common perl implementation bug on windows.
210 - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around
211 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by
212 tcp sockets on windows. ugh.)
213
2144.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008
215 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()").
216 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util.
217 - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP.
218 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother
219 scheduling.
220
2214.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
222 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
223 - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
224 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
225 - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
226 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
227 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
228 use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
229
2304.6 Sat Apr 26 10:05:14 CEST 2008
231 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported
232 by the Coro module. It was a mistake to have it in the first place.
233 - (experimental) support for activestate perl 5.10 (method "w").
234 - (experimental) support for strawberry perl (method "a").
235 - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to,
236 actual impact unknown.
237
2384.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008
239 - make it compile again on 5.8.
240
2414.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008
242 - I did it twice! (see 4.49).
243
2444.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008
245 - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they
246 were compiled on 5.8 only.
247
2484.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
249 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
250 the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
251 (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
252 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
253
2544.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
255 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
256 and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
257 leading to crashes and worse.
258 - document force_cctx.
259
2604.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
261 - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
262 to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
263
2644.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
265 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
266 downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
267 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
268 (also add testcase).
269 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
270 apparently having loads of fun with that).
271 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
272
2734.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
274 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
275 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
276 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
277 - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
278 Andreas König.
279
2804.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
281 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
282 "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
283
2844.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
285 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
286 trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
287
2884.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
289 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
290 from longmess and also skips the innermost
291 stackframes, giving more useufl output.
292 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
293 at a <1% speed hit.
294 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
295 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
296
2974.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
298 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
299
3004.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
301 - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
302
3034.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
304 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
305 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
306 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
307
3084.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
309 - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
310
3114.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
312 - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
313 when the stack changed.
314 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
315 (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
316 if available.
317 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
318 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
319 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
320
3214.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
322 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
323 and Coro::Handle.
324
3254.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
326 - fix a spurious memory read.
327 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
328
3294.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
330 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
331 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
332 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
333 - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
334 does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
335 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
336 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
337 directly supported by Coro.
338 - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
339 stuff in Coro::Util.
340 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
341 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
342 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
343
3444.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
345 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
346 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
347 $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
348 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
349 instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
350 This also catches recursive invocations.
351 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
352
3534.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
354 - port to threaded perls.
355
3564.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
357 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
358 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
359 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
360 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
361 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
362 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
363 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
364 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
365 speeds up context switching a bit.
366 - further tune default stack sizes.
367 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
368 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
369 resulting in races between coroutines.
370 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
371 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
372 an unrelated coroutine.
373 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
374 more detail in Coro::State.
375 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
376 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
377 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
378 invalidating pointers.
379
3804.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
381 - added Coro::throw method.
382 - minor code cleanups.
383
3844.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
385 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
386 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
387 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
388 or use tracing).
389 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
390 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
391 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
7 392
84.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007 3934.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
9 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply 394 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
10 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust. 395 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
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