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Revision 1.88 by pcg, Sat Feb 14 12:39:41 2004 UTC vs.
Revision 1.286 by root, Mon Oct 29 19:13:39 2007 UTC

1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
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30.95 Fri Dec 12 20:50:57 CET 2003 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
8 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
9 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
10 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
11 - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
12 does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
13 - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
14 stuff in Coro::Util.
15 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
16
174.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
18 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
19 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
20 $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
21 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
22 instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
23 This also catches recursive invocations.
24 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
25
264.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
27 - port to threaded perls.
28
294.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
30 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
31 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
32 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
33 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
34 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
35 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
36 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
37 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
38 speeds up context switching a bit.
39 - further tune default stack sizes.
40 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
41 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
42 resulting in races between coroutines.
43 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
44 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
45 an unrelated coroutine.
46 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
47 more detail in Coro::State.
48 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
49 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
50 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
51 invalidating pointers.
52
534.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
54 - added Coro::throw method.
55 - minor code cleanups.
56
574.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
58 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
59 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
60 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
61 or use tracing).
62 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
63 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
64 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
65
664.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
67 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
68 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
69
704.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
71 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
72 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
73 debugging, tracing and much more.
74 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
75 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
76 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
77 flags.
78 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
79 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
80 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
81 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
82 - added Coro::killall.
83 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
84 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
85 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
86 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
87 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
88 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
89 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
90 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
91 - many minor tweaks.
92
933.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
94 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
95
963.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
97 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
98 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
99
1003.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
101 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
102 pst's sometimes.
103 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
104 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
105 be threadsafe...).
106 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
107 but stateful semantics.
108 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
109 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
110
1113.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
112 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
113 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
114 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
115 (EXPERIMENTAL).
116 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
117 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
118 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
119 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
120
1213.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
122 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
123 it by default.
124 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
125 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
126 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
127 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
128 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
129 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
130 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
131 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
132 performance.
133
1343.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
135 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
136 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
137
1383.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
139 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
140 them without asking.
141
1423.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
143 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
144 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
145 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
146 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
147 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
148 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
149
1503.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
151 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
152 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
153 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
154 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
155 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
156 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
157 obsolete platforms.
158
1593.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
160 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
161 but was rather flaky in practise.
162 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
163 it was reused.
164 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
165 in cede_notself.
166
1673.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
168 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
169 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
170 documented and - hopefully - improved.
171 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
172 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
173 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
174 that could errronously trigger.
175 - fix various large and small memleaks.
176 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
177 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
178 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
179 - added Coro::guard function.
180 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
181 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
182 and 128k coros with async_pool).
183 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
184
1853.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
186 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
187 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
188 - simplify configuration for users.
189 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
190 their coro replacements.
191
1923.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
193 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
194 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
195 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
196 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
197 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
198 - save/restore tainted status.
199 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
200
2013.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
202 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
203 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
204 - give a better error message on deadlock.
205 - document Coro::nready.
206 - enhanced testsuite.
207
2083.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
209 - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
210
2113.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
212 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
213 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
214 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
215 pool (size currently hardcoded).
216 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
217 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
218 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
219 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
220 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
221 check for changed watchers.
222 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
223 per event.
224 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
225 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
226 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
227 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
228 some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
229 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
230 directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
231 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
232 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
233 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
234 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
235 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
236 - updated to newest libcoro.
237 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
238 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
239 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
240 and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
241 if somebody asks for it :)
242 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
243 spuriously without the event having happened.
244
2452.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
246 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
247 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
248 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
249 make LWP non-blocking.
250 - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
251 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
252 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
253 - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
254 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
255 - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
256 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
257 by LWP(!!).
258 - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
259 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
260 kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
261 did already.
262
2632.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
264 - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
265 zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
266 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
267 (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
268 - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
269 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
270 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
271 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
272
2732.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
274 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
275
2761.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
277
2781.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
279 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
280 mark & sweep gc run.
281 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
282
2831.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
284 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
285 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
286
2871.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
288 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
289 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
290 wrong package.
291 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
292 perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
293 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
294 normally uses.
295 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
296
2971.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
298 - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
299
3001.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
301 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
302 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
303 - strict'ify some modules.
304 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
305 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
306 - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
307
3081.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
309 - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
310 when 'l'inux method was used.
311
3121.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
313 - some portability fixes/workarounds.
314
3151.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
316 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
317 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
318 Coro::State::flush method.
319 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
320
3211.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
322 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
323 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
324 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
325 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
326 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
327
3281.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
329 - change of contact address.
330
3311.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
332 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
333 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
334
3351.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
336 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
337 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
338 padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
339
3400.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
341 - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
342
3430.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
344 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
345 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
346 as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
347 Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
348 between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
349 fixable).
350 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
351
3520.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
4 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much 353 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
5 faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV. 354 faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
6 - a memleak with (real) closures remains. 355 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
7 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after 356 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
8 observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte 357 observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
9 of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in 358 of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
10 pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap). 359 pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
360 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
361 - fix for threaded perl.
11 362
120.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003 3630.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
13 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid 364 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
14 memory leaks. 365 memory leaks.
15 - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(. 366 - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.

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