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Revision 1.198 by root, Fri Jan 12 01:15:03 2007 UTC vs.
Revision 1.271 by root, Tue Oct 9 22:29:26 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: destroy gets only called on cancel: fix(?) 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)).
5 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 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
26 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
27 - sped up Coro::Event next event handling by 15%, uses less memory.
28
294.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
30 - added Coro::throw method.
31 - minor code cleanups.
32
334.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
34 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
35 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
36 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
37 or use tracing).
38 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
39 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
40 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
41
424.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
43 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
44 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
45
464.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
47 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
48 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
49 debugging, tracing and much more.
50 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
51 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
52 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
53 flags.
54 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
55 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
56 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
57 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
58 - added Coro::killall.
59 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
60 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
61 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
62 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
63 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
64 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
65 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
66 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
67 - many minor tweaks.
68
693.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
70 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
71
723.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
73 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
74 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
75
763.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
77 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
78 pst's sometimes.
79 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
80 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
81 be threadsafe...).
82 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
83 but stateful semantics.
84 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
85 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
86
873.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
88 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
89 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
90 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
91 (EXPERIMENTAL).
92 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
93 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
94 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
95 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
96
973.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
98 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
99 it by default.
100 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
101 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
102 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
103 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
104 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
105 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
106 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
107 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
108 performance.
109
1103.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
111 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
112 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
113
1143.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
115 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
116 them without asking.
117
1183.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
119 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
120 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
121 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
122 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
123 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
124 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
125
1263.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
127 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
128 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
129 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
130 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
131 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
132 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
133 obsolete platforms.
134
1353.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
6 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much 136 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
7 but was rather flaky in practise. 137 but was rather flaky in practise.
8 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until 138 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
9 it was reused. 139 it was reused.
140 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
141 in cede_notself.
10 142
113.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007 1433.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
12 - implement $coro->on_destroy. 144 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
13 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed, 145 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
14 documented and - hopefully - improved. 146 documented and - hopefully - improved.

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