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Revision 1.175 by root, Mon Dec 4 13:47:56 2006 UTC vs.
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1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2 2
3TODO: transfer flags must be per state 3TODO: should explore PerlIO::via::CoroCede and PerlIO::via::CoroAIO.
4TODO: better (earlier) error messages on broken transfer's 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
63. 84.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
9 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
10 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
11 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
12 - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
13 does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
14 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
15 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
16 directly supported by Coro.
17 - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
18 stuff in Coro::Util.
19 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
20 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
21 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
22
234.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
24 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
25 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
26 $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
27 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
28 instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
29 This also catches recursive invocations.
30 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
31
324.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
33 - port to threaded perls.
34
354.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
36 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
37 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
38 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
39 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
40 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
41 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
42 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
43 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
44 speeds up context switching a bit.
45 - further tune default stack sizes.
46 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
47 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
48 resulting in races between coroutines.
49 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
50 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
51 an unrelated coroutine.
52 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
53 more detail in Coro::State.
54 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
55 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
56 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
57 invalidating pointers.
58
594.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
60 - added Coro::throw method.
61 - minor code cleanups.
62
634.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
64 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
65 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
66 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
67 or use tracing).
68 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
69 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
70 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
71
724.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
73 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
74 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
75
764.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
77 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
78 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
79 debugging, tracing and much more.
80 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
81 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
82 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
83 flags.
84 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
85 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
86 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
87 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
88 - added Coro::killall.
89 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
90 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
91 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
92 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
93 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
94 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
95 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
96 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
97 - many minor tweaks.
98
993.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
100 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
101
1023.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
103 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
104 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
105
1063.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
107 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
108 pst's sometimes.
109 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
110 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
111 be threadsafe...).
112 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
113 but stateful semantics.
114 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
115 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
116
1173.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
118 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
119 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
120 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
121 (EXPERIMENTAL).
122 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
123 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
124 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
125 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
126
1273.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
128 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
129 it by default.
130 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
131 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
132 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
133 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
134 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
135 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
136 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
137 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
138 performance.
139
1403.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
141 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
142 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
143
1443.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
145 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
146 them without asking.
147
1483.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
149 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
150 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
151 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
152 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
153 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
154 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
155
1563.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
157 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
158 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
159 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
160 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
161 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
162 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
163 obsolete platforms.
164
1653.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
166 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
167 but was rather flaky in practise.
168 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
169 it was reused.
170 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
171 in cede_notself.
172
1733.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
174 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
175 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
176 documented and - hopefully - improved.
177 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
178 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
179 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
180 that could errronously trigger.
181 - fix various large and small memleaks.
182 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
183 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
184 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
185 - added Coro::guard function.
186 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
187 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
188 and 128k coros with async_pool).
189 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
190
1913.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
192 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
193 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
194 - simplify configuration for users.
195 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
196 their coro replacements.
197
1983.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
199 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
200 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
201 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
202 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
203 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
204 - save/restore tainted status.
205 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
206
2073.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
7 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine. 208 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
8 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state. 209 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
9 - give a better error message on deadlock. 210 - give a better error message on deadlock.
10 - document Coro::nready. 211 - document Coro::nready.
11 - enhanced testsuite. 212 - enhanced testsuite.
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