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Revision 1.26 by root, Tue Jul 24 18:46:06 2001 UTC vs.
Revision 1.169 by root, Sat Dec 2 18:01:30 2006 UTC

1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2
3TODO: transfer flags must be per state
4
53.0
6 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
7 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
8 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
9 pool (size currently hardcoded).
10 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
11 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
12 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
13 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
14 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
15 check for changed watchers.
16 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
17 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
18 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
19 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
20 some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
21 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
22 directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
23 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
24 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
25 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
26 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
27 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
28 - updated to newest libcoro.
29 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
30 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
31 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
32 and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
33 if somebody asks for it :)
34 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
35 spuriously without the event having happened.
36
372.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
38 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
39 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
40 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
41 make LWP non-blocking.
42 - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
43 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
44 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
45 - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
46 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
47 - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
48 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
49 by LWP(!!).
50 - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
51 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
52 kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
53 did already.
54
552.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
56 - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
57 zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
58 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
59 (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
60 - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
61 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
62 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
63 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
64
652.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
66 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
67
681.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
69
701.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
71 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
72 mark & sweep gc run.
73 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
74
751.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
76 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
77 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
78
791.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
80 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
81 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
82 wrong package.
83 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
84 perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
85 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
86 normally uses.
87 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
88
891.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
90 - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
91
921.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
93 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
94 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
95 - strict'ify some modules.
96 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
97 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
98 - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
99
1001.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
101 - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
102 when 'l'inux method was used.
103
1041.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
105 - some portability fixes/workarounds.
106
1071.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
109 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
110 Coro::State::flush method.
111 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
112
1131.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
114 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
115 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
116 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
117 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
118 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
119
1201.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
121 - change of contact address.
122
1231.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
124 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
125 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
126
1271.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
128 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
129 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
130 padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
131
1320.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
133 - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
134
1350.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
136 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
137 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
138 as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
139 Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
140 between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
141 fixable).
142 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
143
1440.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
145 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
146 faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
147 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
148 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
149 observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
150 of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
151 pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
152 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
153 - fix for threaded perl.
154
1550.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
156 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
157 memory leaks.
158 - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
159 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
160 hopefully ignoring it "just works".
161
1620.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
163 - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
164 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
165
1660.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
167 - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
168 of new features.
169 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
170 Highly correct stuff, that is...
171 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
172 the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
173
1740.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
175 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
176 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
177 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
178 so preselect it.
179
1800.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
181 - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
182 on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
183
1840.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
185 - added a README.linux-glibc.
186 - new module Coro::Select.
187 - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
188 (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
189 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
190
1910.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
192 - made lazy context switching the default.
193 - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
194 was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
195 - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
196 - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
197
1980.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
199 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
200 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
201 - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
202 ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
203 - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
204 of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
205
2060.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
207 - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
208 - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
209 could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
210
2110.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
212 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
213 (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
214 without Event, which freezes).
215
2160.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
217 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
218
2190.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
220 - some tests for Event.
221 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
222 and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
223 new ones.
224 - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
225 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
226
2270.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
228 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
229 patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
230 - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
231
2320.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
233 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
234 could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
235 error.
236 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
237 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
238 - implemented terminate with args + join.
239
2400.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
241 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
242 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
243 in various modules.
244 - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
245 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
246
2470.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
248 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
249 inside Coro::Handle.
250 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
251 speed reasons.
252 - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
253 sjlj and ucontext should now work.
254 - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
255 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
256 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
257 - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
258 under some circumstances.
259 - other bugfixes.
260
2610.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
262 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
263 - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
264 - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
265 - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
266 - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
267 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
268 syntax.
269 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
270 - new simple priority system.
271 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
272 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
273
2740.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
275 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
276 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
277 (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
278 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
279 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
280 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
281 "Callback called exit" messages).
282 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
283 - much better Coro::Socket support.
284
2850.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
286 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
287 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
288 should work well in practise ;)
289 - added Coro::RWLock.
290 - Coro::Specific now works.
291
2920.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
293 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
294 - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
295 - new module Coro::Socket.
2 296
30.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001 2970.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
4 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :( 298 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
5 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement 299 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
6 for yield. 300 for yield.

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