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Revision 1.29 by root, Wed Jul 25 04:26:55 2001 UTC vs.
Revision 1.185 by root, Mon Dec 25 13:25:55 2006 UTC

1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
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30.12 3TODO: better (earlier) error messages on broken transfer's
4
5 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
6 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
7
83.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
9 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
10 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
11 - simplify configuration for users.
12 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
13 their coro replacements.
14
153.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
16 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
17 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
18 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
19 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
20 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
21 - save/restore tainted status.
22 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
23
243.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
25 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
26 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
27 - give a better error message on deadlock.
28 - document Coro::nready.
29 - enhanced testsuite.
30
313.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
32 - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
33
343.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
35 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
36 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
37 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
38 pool (size currently hardcoded).
39 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
40 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
41 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
42 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
43 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
44 check for changed watchers.
45 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
46 per event.
47 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
48 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
49 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
50 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
51 some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
52 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
53 directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
54 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
55 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
56 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
57 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
58 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
59 - updated to newest libcoro.
60 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
61 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
62 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
63 and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
64 if somebody asks for it :)
65 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
66 spuriously without the event having happened.
67
682.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
69 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
70 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
71 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
72 make LWP non-blocking.
73 - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
74 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
75 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
76 - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
77 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
78 - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
79 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
80 by LWP(!!).
81 - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
82 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
83 kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
84 did already.
85
862.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
87 - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
88 zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
89 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
90 (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
91 - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
92 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
93 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
94 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
95
962.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
97 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
98
991.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
100
1011.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
102 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
103 mark & sweep gc run.
104 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
105
1061.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
107 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
108 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
109
1101.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
111 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
112 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
113 wrong package.
114 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
115 perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
116 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
117 normally uses.
118 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
119
1201.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
121 - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
122
1231.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
124 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
125 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
126 - strict'ify some modules.
127 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
128 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
129 - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
130
1311.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
132 - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
133 when 'l'inux method was used.
134
1351.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
136 - some portability fixes/workarounds.
137
1381.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
139 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
140 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
141 Coro::State::flush method.
142 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
143
1441.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
145 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
146 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
147 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
148 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
149 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
150
1511.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
152 - change of contact address.
153
1541.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
155 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
156 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
157
1581.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
159 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
160 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
161 padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
162
1630.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
164 - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
165
1660.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
167 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
168 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
169 as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
170 Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
171 between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
172 fixable).
173 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
174
1750.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
176 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
177 faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
178 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
179 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
180 observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
181 of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
182 pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
183 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
184 - fix for threaded perl.
185
1860.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
187 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
188 memory leaks.
189 - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
190 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
191 hopefully ignoring it "just works".
192
1930.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
194 - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
195 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
196
1970.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
198 - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
199 of new features.
200 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
201 Highly correct stuff, that is...
202 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
203 the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
204
2050.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
206 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
207 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
208 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
209 so preselect it.
210
2110.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
212 - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
213 on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
214
2150.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
216 - added a README.linux-glibc.
217 - new module Coro::Select.
218 - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
219 (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
220 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
221
2220.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
223 - made lazy context switching the default.
224 - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
225 was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
226 - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
227 - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
228
2290.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
230 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
231 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
232 - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
233 ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
234 - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
235 of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
236
2370.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
238 - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
239 - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
240 could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
241
2420.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
243 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
244 (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
245 without Event, which freezes).
246
2470.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
248 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
249
2500.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
251 - some tests for Event.
252 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
253 and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
254 new ones.
255 - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
256 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
257
2580.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
259 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
260 patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
261 - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
262
2630.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
264 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
265 could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
266 error.
267 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
268 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
269 - implemented terminate with args + join.
270
2710.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
272 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
273 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
274 in various modules.
275 - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
276 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
277
2780.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
279 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
280 inside Coro::Handle.
281 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
282 speed reasons.
283 - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
284 sjlj and ucontext should now work.
285 - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
286 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
287 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
288 - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
289 under some circumstances.
290 - other bugfixes.
291
2920.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
293 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
294 - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
295 - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
296 - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
297 - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
298 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
299 syntax.
300 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
301 - new simple priority system.
302 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
303 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
304
3050.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
306 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
307 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
308 (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
309 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
310 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
311 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
312 "Callback called exit" messages).
313 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
314 - much better Coro::Socket support.
315
3160.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
4 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined. 317 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
5 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe ut 318 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
6 should work well in practise ;) 319 should work well in practise ;)
320 - added Coro::RWLock.
321 - Coro::Specific now works.
7 322
80.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001 3230.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
9 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast). 324 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
10 - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle. 325 - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
11 - new module Coro::Socket. 326 - new module Coro::Socket.

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