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Revision 1.168 by root, Fri Dec 1 19:58:52 2006 UTC vs.
Revision 1.295 by root, Sat Dec 1 22:39:39 2007 UTC

1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
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33.0 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 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
9 (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
10 if available.
11
124.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
13 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
14 and Coro::Handle.
15
164.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
17 - fix a spurious memory read.
18 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
19
204.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
21 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
22 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
23 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
24 - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
25 does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
26 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
27 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
28 directly supported by Coro.
29 - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
30 stuff in Coro::Util.
31 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
32 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
33 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
34
354.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
36 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
37 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
38 $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
39 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
40 instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
41 This also catches recursive invocations.
42 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
43
444.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
45 - port to threaded perls.
46
474.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
48 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
49 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
50 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
51 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
52 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
53 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
54 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
55 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
56 speeds up context switching a bit.
57 - further tune default stack sizes.
58 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
59 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
60 resulting in races between coroutines.
61 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
62 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
63 an unrelated coroutine.
64 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
65 more detail in Coro::State.
66 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
67 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
68 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
69 invalidating pointers.
70
714.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
72 - added Coro::throw method.
73 - minor code cleanups.
74
754.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
76 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
77 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
78 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
79 or use tracing).
80 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
81 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
82 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
83
844.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
85 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
86 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
87
884.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
89 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
90 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
91 debugging, tracing and much more.
92 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
93 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
94 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
95 flags.
96 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
97 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
98 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
99 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
100 - added Coro::killall.
101 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
102 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
103 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
104 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
105 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
106 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
107 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
108 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
109 - many minor tweaks.
110
1113.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
112 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
113
1143.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
115 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
116 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
117
1183.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
119 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
120 pst's sometimes.
121 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
122 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
123 be threadsafe...).
124 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
125 but stateful semantics.
126 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
127 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
128
1293.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
130 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
131 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
132 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
133 (EXPERIMENTAL).
134 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
135 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
136 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
137 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
138
1393.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
140 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
141 it by default.
142 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
143 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
144 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
145 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
146 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
147 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
148 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
149 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
150 performance.
151
1523.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
153 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
154 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
155
1563.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
157 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
158 them without asking.
159
1603.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
161 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
162 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
163 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
164 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
165 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
166 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
167
1683.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
169 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
170 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
171 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
172 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
173 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
174 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
175 obsolete platforms.
176
1773.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
178 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
179 but was rather flaky in practise.
180 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
181 it was reused.
182 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
183 in cede_notself.
184
1853.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
186 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
187 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
188 documented and - hopefully - improved.
189 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
190 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
191 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
192 that could errronously trigger.
193 - fix various large and small memleaks.
194 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
195 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
196 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
197 - added Coro::guard function.
198 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
199 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
200 and 128k coros with async_pool).
201 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
202
2033.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
204 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
205 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
206 - simplify configuration for users.
207 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
208 their coro replacements.
209
2103.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
211 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
212 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
213 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
214 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
215 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
216 - save/restore tainted status.
217 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
218
2193.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
220 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
221 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
222 - give a better error message on deadlock.
223 - document Coro::nready.
224 - enhanced testsuite.
225
2263.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
227 - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
228
2293.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
4 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon: 230 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
5 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release). 231 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
6 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack 232 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
7 pool (size currently hardcoded). 233 pool (size currently hardcoded).
8 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic). 234 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
9 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use. 235 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
10 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but 236 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
11 no Coro::Event watchers were used. 237 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
12 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not 238 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
13 check for changed watchers. 239 check for changed watchers.
240 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
241 per event.
14 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now. 242 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
15 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub. 243 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
16 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant. 244 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
17 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under 245 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
18 some circumstances lead to stack corruption. 246 some circumstances lead to stack corruption.

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