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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: channel->maxsize(newsize)?
5 (which is cool in a lot of important aspects (failures!), 5TODO: __GCC_HAVE_DWARF2_CFI_ASM
6 but very lacking in others (higher level ipc)). 6
76.28 Wed Mar 6 06:58:02 CET 2013
8 - clean remnants of existing __DIE__ and __WARN__ handlers so
9 they lose their magic and will not cause segfaults later
10 (testcase by Andrey Sagulin).
11 - improved Coro::State documentation a bit.
12 - Coro::Debug::command now flushes the output.
13 - add hack detection code for x32 abi, because the braindead slugs
14 who designed that made it look exactly like x86_64 without
15 providing proper compile time symbols to test for it. as a result,
16 this detection cannot work reliably.
17 - valgrind stack registering was broken.
18 - do not rely on Time::HiRes anymore in Coro::Debug.
19
206.23 Fri Dec 7 23:36:37 CET 2012
21 - use experimental fiber implementation on native windows
22 perls.
23 - use sizeof (void *) as multiplication factor for stack sizes,
24 to accomodate the totally braindamaged microsoft 64 bit "os".
25 - changed verifier host from win2k-ap510-32 to win7-sp516-32/64.
26 activeperl 5.16 crashes when PerlIO_define_layer is called due
27 to some bug in the perl dll, strawberry perl at least passes
28 the testsuite.
29 - implement Coro::Handle->peeraddr/host/port, for slightly
30 improved compatibility with LWP.
31 - implement 5.17 compatibility by almost blindly applying a
32 good-looking patch by Father Chrysostomos.
33 - move stack management functions into libcoro 3.
34 - libcoro version 3 "released".
35 - support magic values as timed_io_once args.
36 - recommend AnyEvent 7+ or EV 4+, also require EV
37 version 4 or newer for Coro::EV.
38
396.10 Tue Oct 9 01:14:27 CEST 2012
40 - updated ecb.h, it had a typo that caused it to not compile on many
41 big endian systems (reported by many people).
42 - disable memory fences in ecb.h to improve portability.
43
446.09 Sat Oct 6 23:25:02 CEST 2012
45 - Coro::EV I/O watchers were not interruptible by exceptions
46 (Coro::State::throw) (testcase by sten).
47 - ->throw now puts threads into the ready queue, as this seems to
48 be expected by existing code, and code that doesn't cope with spurious
49 wakeups needs fixing anyway.
50 - use fd -1 in mmap.
51 - cast I32 to int in error message printf.
52 - warn about broken so-called "hardened" kernels.
53
546.08 Fri Apr 13 12:05:47 CEST 2012
55 - be more aggressive about exiting like perl does - formerly,
56 exiting from the non-main thread would not execute END blocks.
57
586.07 Fri Nov 11 21:21:48 CET 2011
59 - work around a bug in PerlIO (setting $SIG{__WARN__} to a PVCV).
60 - update ecb.h.
61
626.06 Mon Aug 8 23:59:48 CEST 2011
63 - cygwin unfortunately patches the stack at runtime, so we use the pthreads
64 backend, which is an order of magnitude slower. unfortunately, cygwins
65 pthread implementation isn't very complete either, so allocate the stack
66 twice just to be sure.
67 (note: cygwin also enables mymalloc, which is NOT THREADSAFE ON WINDOWS,
68 in its ithreaded perl - best recompile cygwin and use the 'w'indows
69 backend for much better performance. also disable ithreads for
70 even better performance...).
71
726.05 Thu Aug 4 21:36:36 CEST 2011
73 - blush, condvar values would not be propagated from send to recv anymore
74 (reported by Chip Salzenberg).
75 - use exponential increase for the readline buffer length in
76 Coro::Handle. also reduce initial allocation to 1020 from 4096 bytes.
77
786.04 Wed Aug 3 17:15:45 CEST 2011
79 - use even more efficient and more compatible condvars for
80 compatibility to AnyEvent 6.x :)
81 - more inconsequential ecb.h updates.
82
836.03 Wed Aug 3 11:41:30 CEST 2011
84 - change how Coro patches AnyEvent condvars for compatibility to
85 AnyEvent 6.x.
86 - update ecb.h, to no longer include <pthread.h> in case WinNT.h
87 hasn't been included.
88
896.02 Wed Jul 13 04:35:19 CEST 2011
90 - "improve portability to Gentoo" - gentoo manages to put perl variables
91 in memory areas that are farther than 2gb apart, which the jit couldn't
92 handle and barfed. now it's just a bit slower on gentoo and similar
93 systems.
94
956.01 Sun Jul 3 12:31:14 CEST 2011
96 - workarounds are good, but the test for whether pthreads are used
97 was not good. thisone should be better.
98 - check differently whether gcc generates cfi instructions itself.
99
1006.0 Wed Jun 29 19:43:35 CEST 2011
101 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: unreferenced coro objects will now be
102 destroyed and cleaned up automatically (e.g. async { schedule }).
103 - implement a JIT compiler for part of the thread switch code,
104 which gives a 50% speed improvement on threaded perls, and
105 about 4% on non-thraeded perls (so threaded perls now finally
106 reach about half the speed of non-threaded perls).
107 - slightly modernise Coro::Intro, add section about rouse functions.
108 - avoid DEFSV and ERRSV, giving another 10% improvement
109 in thread switching.
110 - Coro::State->is_destroyed is now called is_zombie.
111 - implement a Coro->safe_cancel method that might fail, but
112 cancels in a "safer" way if it succeeds.
113 - add preliminary support for DEBUGGING perls.
114 - get rid of two hash-accesses when initialising a new Coro - this
115 speeds up coro creation by almost a factor of two.
116 - croak when a coro that is being cancelled tries to block
117 (e.g. while executing a guard block), instead of crashing or
118 deadlocking.
119 - use a more robust and also faster method to identify Coro::State
120 objects - speeds up everything a bit.
121 - implement Coro->cancel in XS for a 20% speed improvement, and to
122 be able to implement mutual cancellation.
123 - speed up context switches by a percent or two by more efficiently
124 allocating context stack entries.
125 - implement Coro->join and Coro->on_destroy in XS for a speedup and
126 a reduction in memory use.
127 - cancelling a coro while it itself is cancelling another coro is
128 now supported and working, instead of triggering an assertion.
129 - be a bit more crash-resistant when calling (buggy) on_destroy
130 callbacks (best effort).
131 - move on_destroy into the slf_frame, to allow extension slf
132 functions to have destructors.
133 - get rid if coro refcounting - simply crash in other interpreter
134 threads by nulling the pointers on clone.
135 - simplify warn/die hook handling when loading Coro - the convoluted
136 logic seems to be no longer neccessary.
137 - use libecb instead of our own home-grown gcc hacks.
138 - document alternatives to Coro::LWP. Please use them :)
139 - work around another mindless idiotic NEEDLESS bug in openbsd/mirbsds
140 sigaltstack. Really. wine suffers from it, erlang suffers from it,
141 and it's known since at least 2006.
142
1435.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011
144 - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to
145 work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to
146 my attention by Max Maischein).
147 - fix some portability issues when Time::HiRes was used.
148
1495.371 Mon Feb 21 14:36:08 CET 2011
150 - backport to windows process emulation code again.
151
1525.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011
153 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
154 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
155 introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
156 - no longer use Time::HiRes if gettimeofday is available, which
157 saves quite a lot of memory.
158
1595.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
160 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
161 Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
162 method call.
163 - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
164 - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
165 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
166 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
167
1685.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
169 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
170 working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
171 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
172 with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
173
1745.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
175 - port to the EV 4.0 API.
176 - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
177 out of the box.
178 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
179 so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
180 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
181
1825.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
183 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
184 Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
185 Waldorf).
186 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
187
1885.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
189 - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
190 (testcase by Marc Mims).
191 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
192 are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
193 functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
194 fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
195 with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
196 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
197 modules could have provided their own idle coro already
198 (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
199 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
200 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
201
2025.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
203 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
204 together.
205 - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
206 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
207 the most common source of confusion.
208 - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
209 - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
210 older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
211 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
212
2135.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
214 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
215 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
216 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
217 - new method $state->swap_sv.
218 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
219 after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
220 salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
221 were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
222 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
223 and maybe well enough for others to understand.
224 - use common::sense everywhere now.
225 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
226 - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
227
2285.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
229 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
230 when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
231 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
232 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
233 setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
234 - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
235
2365.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
237 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
238 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
239
2405.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
241 - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
242 used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
243 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
244 not on demand.
245 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
246
2475.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
248 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
249 when no threads had been readied between detecting
250 the event loop and actually running it.
251 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
252 of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
253 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
254 (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
255 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
256 and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
257 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
258 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
259 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
260 for hardcode select overriding.
261
2625.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
263 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
264 Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
265 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
266
2675.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
268 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
269 AnyEvent::Socket instead.
270 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
271 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
272 to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
273 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
274 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
275 reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
276 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
277 (Coro::State::enable_times).
278
2795.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
280 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
281 as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
282 idle_upto).
283 - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
284 - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
285 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
286 avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
287 had already been freed.
288 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
289 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
290 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
291 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
292 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
293 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
294 Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
295 (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
296 - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
297 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
298 - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
299 (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
300
3015.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
302 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
303 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
304 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
305 should support a prepare callback.
306
3075.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
308 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
309 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
310 the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
311
3125.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
313 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
314 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
315 spurious warnings.
316 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
317 - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
318 - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
319 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
320 - deprecate Coro::guard.
321 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
322 testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
323 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
324 - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
325 - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
326 when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
327 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
328 to avoid needless segfaults.
329
3305.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
331 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
332 compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
333 openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
334 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
335 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
336 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
337 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
338 - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
339 destruction.
340 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
341 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
342 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
343 - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
344 pthreads fare better?).
345 - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
346
3475.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
348 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
349 working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
350 it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
351
3525.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
353 - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
354 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
355 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
356 and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
357 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
358 LWP data transfers.
359 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
360 correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
361 objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
362 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
363 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably
364 doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
365 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
366 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
367 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
368 do not have this method (and don't need it either).
369 - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
370 callbacks.
371 - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
372 others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
373 through the idle threads now.
374 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
375 - eg/event was pretty broken.
376 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
377
3785.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
379 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
380 stability issues.
381 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
382 - removed timed_* functions - they were not being used anyways
383 and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
384 and were annoying to support anyways :)
385 - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem method instead.
386 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
387 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
388 ("Attempt to unreference...").
389 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
390 was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
391 would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where
392 it was available but waiters were still blocked).
393 - calling throw on a coroutine that is waiting for a semaphore will
394 no longer make it acquire the semaphore (and thus leak a count).
395 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported
396 anymore.
397 - new functions Coro::rouse_cb and Coro::rouse_wait for easier
398 conversion of callback-style to blocking-style.
399 - new methods $coro->schedule_to and ->cede_to, to specifically
400 schedule or cede to a specific coroutine.
401 - new function Coro::Semaphore::wait.
402 - use named constants in Coro::Channel (Richard Hundt).
403 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede,
404 transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but
405 more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of
406 entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from
407 those functions and atcually create new ones.
408 - take advantage of __builtin_frame_address on gcc.
409 - expose THX in coroapi (not sure whether this was a wise decision,
410 as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways).
411 - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes
412 it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS.
413 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a
414 factor of two.
415 - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a
416 factor of three.
417 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of
418 four and reduce its memory usage considerably.
419 - implement Coro::SemaphoreSet purely in terms of Coro::Semaphore,
420 for a nice speedup and vastly more correct behaviour. Also implement
421 a new method "sem" to get at the underlying semaphore object.
422 - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate
423 (in comparison) 20-40% speedup.
424 - used new SLF interface to reimplement Coro::Signal gaining
425 some unknown (because I was too lazy), but certain, speedup, and also
426 making signals reliable for the first time.
427 - used new SLF interface and other optimisations to speed up async_pool
428 by a factor of two. It also doesn't rely on perl's exception mechanism
429 to exit anymore. The overhead for terminating an async_pool, coro over
430 a normal async is now very small.
431 - sped up coroutine creation/destruction by 40%.
432 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years.
433 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
434 pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
435 - use new rouse functions to speed up and simplify Coro::BDB.
436 - make "prefer perl native functions" work with threaded perls.
437 - condense Coro::Debug ps output, hint at v and w flags.
438 - (libcoro) lots of minor cleanups and portability improvements.
439
4404.914 Wed Nov 19 12:54:18 CET 2008
441 - fix a disastrous bug in the readline optimisation
442 introduced in 4.801.
443
4444.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008
445 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
446 ("Attempt to unreference...").
447
4484.912 Thu Nov 13 18:31:23 CET 2008
449 - minor cleanups.
450 - use much larger stacks on linux and perl < 5.8.8.
451 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server did not unlink the socket
452 when destroyed.
453
4544.911 Tue Nov 11 04:26:17 CET 2008
455 - "port" to threaded perls.
456
4574.91 Mon Nov 10 05:36:38 CET 2008
458 - the ->throw exception object no longer leaks.
459 - creating a new cctx leaked a scopestack entry (memleak).
460 - new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field
461 (unknown impact).
462 - calling ->throw on a not-yet-started coroutine should now work
463 instead of being ignored.
464 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
465 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
466 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
467
4684.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008
469 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
470 - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
471 also speed it up considerably.
472 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
473 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
474 - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
475 - Coro::State::cctx_stacksize wasn't applied correctly.
476 - new function Coro::State::cctx_max_idle.
477 - the default max number of idle C contexts is now 4.
478 - (libcoro) try harder to get _setjmp/_longjmp.
479 - (libcoro) cleanup and extend the libcoro API to officially
480 allow the creation of empty source contexts.
481 - very experimental workaround for the totally broken netbsd platform.
482 - tried to hack around openbsd bugs.
483
4844.804 Wed Nov 5 16:36:00 CET 2008
485 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server would not create a non-blocking listening
486 socket, sometimes causing freezes.
487 - (libcoro) fix misaligned stack points for setjmp and assembly
488 methods, which can cause crashes on x86/x86_64 with a sufficiently
489 aggressive compiler.
490 - new function: Coro::Debug::new_tcp_server.
491 - move ->throw into the Coro class because it only works on coro objects.
492
4934.803 Mon Nov 3 17:16:12 CET 2008
494 - (libcoro) use a global asm statement to become independent of gcc
495 otpimisations for CORO_ASM (thanks to pippijn for the idea).
496 - try to workaround yet another broken bsd, this time dragonfly.
497
4984.802 Thu Oct 30 10:56:12 CET 2008
499 - support -fno-omit-frame-pointer on x86 with the assembly method.
500 - tune 01_unblock.t tests a bit.
501
5024.801 Wed Oct 22 18:33:37 CEST 2008
503 - improve readline speed for very long "lines".
504 - backport to 5.8.8.
505
5064.8 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
507 - new function Coro::AIO::aio_wait.
508 - Coro.:AIO and Coro::BDB now "use Coro::AnyEvent".
509 - greatly speed up and reduce memory usage of Coro::AIO requests.
510 - implement some other µ-optimisations.
511
5124.749 Mon Sep 29 14:40:12 CEST 2008
513 - port to slow and broken pseudo-threaded perls. (courtesy pippijn).
514
5154.748 Sat Sep 27 14:03:19 CEST 2008
516 - implement, but do not document, PerlIO::cede(granularity).
517 - Coro::Storable forgot to wrap Storable::pstore.
518 - work around the multitude of leaks and memory corruption
519 bugs in PerlIO::via by using our own C-level perliol. As a side
520 effect, Coro::Storable is now much, much, much faster.
521
5224.747 Tue Sep 23 01:59:41 CEST 2008
523 - fix a per-cv memleak (one empty array was leaked per
524 code reference).
525 - avoid a crash in coro->call|rss when the coroutine was already
526 destroyed (most noticably when using Coro::Debug::ps :)
527 - also protect *Storable::FILE.
528 - push up default storable granularity to 20ms.
529
5304.746 Sun Sep 21 03:22:20 CEST 2008
531 - be more insistent on locking Storable against reentrancy
532 in Coro::Storable.
533 - move swap_def?v and throw to Coro::State, as documented.
534
5354.745 Thu Jul 24 00:14:38 CEST 2008
536 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to
537 make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves
538 outdated software). Reported by John S.
539
5404.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008
541 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented.
542 - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current
543 implementations inside perl work fine for us.
544
5454.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008
546 - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could
547 result in busy-waiting for events, this has been fixed.
548 - reduce codesize and improve performance by using EV_DEFAULT_UC.
549
5504.742 Sat May 31 14:10:21 CEST 2008
551 - implement a workaround for (some) perl <5.8.8 versions.
552 - require EV 3.3+.
553
5544.741 Fri May 30 23:33:09 CEST 2008
555 - tell netbsd how utterly broken their imitation of an OS is
556 and refuse to build by default if pthreads are in use.
557 - switch to "s" method on all bsd's by default, as their ucontext
558 stuff seems just too broken.
559 - fix a bug in Coro::Select.
560
5614.74 Thu May 29 20:05:31 CEST 2008
562 - do not test Coro::LWP for lack of dependencies.
563 - do not test Coro::Select for lack of working perls.
564
5654.73 Thu May 29 2008
566 - fix a bug in Coro::EV which would cause it to block despite
567 there being runnable coroutines.
568 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress
569 warnings for some other modules.
570 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
571
5724.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008
573 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way
574 to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :(
575 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to
576 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...).
577 - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented
578 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage
579 of AnyEvent's workaround for that problem.
580 - use AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking in Coro::Handle to work around
581 a common perl implementation bug on windows.
582 - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around
583 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by
584 tcp sockets on windows. ugh.)
585
5864.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008
587 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()").
588 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util.
589 - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP.
590 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother
591 scheduling.
592
5934.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
594 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
595 - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
596 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
597 - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
598 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
599 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
600 use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
601
6024.6 Sat Apr 26 10:05:14 CEST 2008
603 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported
604 by the Coro module. It was a mistake to have it in the first place.
605 - (experimental) support for activestate perl 5.10 (method "w").
606 - (experimental) support for strawberry perl (method "a").
607 - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to,
608 actual impact unknown.
609
6104.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008
611 - make it compile again on 5.8.
612
6134.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008
614 - I did it twice! (see 4.49).
615
6164.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008
617 - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they
618 were compiled on 5.8 only.
619
6204.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
621 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
622 the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
623 (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
624 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
625
6264.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
627 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
628 and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
629 leading to crashes and worse.
630 - document force_cctx.
631
6324.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
633 - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
634 to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
635
6364.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
637 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
638 downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
639 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
640 (also add testcase).
641 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
642 apparently having loads of fun with that).
643 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
644
6454.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
646 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
647 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
648 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
649 - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
650 Andreas König.
651
6524.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
653 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
654 "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
655
6564.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
657 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
658 trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
659
6604.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
661 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
662 from longmess and also skips the innermost
663 stackframes, giving more useufl output.
664 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
665 at a <1% speed hit.
666 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
667 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
668
6694.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
670 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
671
6724.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
673 - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
674
6754.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
676 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
677 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
678 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
679
6804.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
681 - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
682
6834.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
684 - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
685 when the stack changed.
686 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
687 (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
688 if available.
689 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
690 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
691 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
692
6934.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
694 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
695 and Coro::Handle.
696
6974.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
698 - fix a spurious memory read.
699 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
700
7014.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
702 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
703 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
704 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
705 - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
706 does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
707 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
708 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
709 directly supported by Coro.
710 - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
711 stuff in Coro::Util.
712 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
713 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
714 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
7 715
84.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007 7164.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
9 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw. 717 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
10 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise 718 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
11 $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8. 719 $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.

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