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Revision 1.183 by root, Fri Dec 22 04:07:29 2006 UTC vs.
Revision 1.269 by root, Mon Oct 8 01:45:20 2007 UTC

1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2 2
3TODO: better (earlier) error messages on broken transfer's 3TODO: should explore PerlIO::via::CoroCede and PerlIO::via::CoroAIO.
4TODO: maybe implement a default message channel, very much like Erlang
5 (which is cool in a lot of important aspects (failures!),
6 but very lacking in others (higher level ipc)).
7
84.1
9 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
10 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
11 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
12 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
13 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
14 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
15 speeds up context switching a bit.
16 - further tune default stack sizes.
17 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
18 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
19 resulting in races between coroutines.
20 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
21 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
22 an unrelated coroutine.
23 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
24 more detail in Coro::State.
25
264.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
27 - added Coro::throw method.
28 - minor code cleanups.
29
304.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
31 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
32 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
33 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
34 or use tracing).
35 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
36 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
37 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
38
394.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
40 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
41 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
42
434.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
44 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
45 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
46 debugging, tracing and much more.
47 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
48 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
49 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
50 flags.
51 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
52 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
53 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
54 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
55 - added Coro::killall.
56 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
57 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
58 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
59 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
60 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
61 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
62 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
63 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
64 - many minor tweaks.
65
663.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
67 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
68
693.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
70 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
71 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
72
733.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
74 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
75 pst's sometimes.
76 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
77 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
78 be threadsafe...).
79 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
80 but stateful semantics.
81 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
82 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
83
843.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
85 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
86 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
87 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
88 (EXPERIMENTAL).
89 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
90 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
91 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
92 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
93
943.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
95 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
96 it by default.
97 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
98 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
99 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
100 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
101 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
102 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
103 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
104 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
105 performance.
106
1073.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
108 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
109 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
110
1113.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
112 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
113 them without asking.
114
1153.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
116 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
117 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
118 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
119 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
120 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
121 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
122
1233.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
124 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
125 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
126 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
127 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
128 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
129 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
130 obsolete platforms.
131
1323.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
133 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
134 but was rather flaky in practise.
135 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
136 it was reused.
137 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
138 in cede_notself.
139
1403.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
141 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
142 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
143 documented and - hopefully - improved.
144 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
145 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
146 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
147 that could errronously trigger.
148 - fix various large and small memleaks.
149 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
150 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
151 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
152 - added Coro::guard function.
153 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
154 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
155 and 128k coros with async_pool).
156 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
4 157
53.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006 1583.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
6 - improve portability to slightly older perls. 159 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
7 - use cleaner coroutine destruction. 160 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
8 - simplify configuration for users. 161 - simplify configuration for users.

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