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1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2 2
3TODO: better (earlier) error messages on broken transfer's 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 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
9 downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
10
114.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
12 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
13 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
14 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
15 - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
16 Andreas König.
17
184.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
19 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
20 "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
21
224.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
23 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
24 trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
25
264.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
27 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
28 from longmess and also skips the innermost
29 stackframes, giving more useufl output.
30 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
31 at a <1% speed hit.
32 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
33 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
34
354.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
36 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
37
384.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
39 - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
40
414.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
42 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
43 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
44 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
45
464.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
47 - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
48
494.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
50 - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
51 when the stack changed.
52 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
53 (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
54 if available.
55 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
56 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
57 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
58
594.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
60 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
61 and Coro::Handle.
62
634.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
64 - fix a spurious memory read.
65 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
66
674.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
68 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
69 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
70 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
71 - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
72 does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
73 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
74 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
75 directly supported by Coro.
76 - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
77 stuff in Coro::Util.
78 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
79 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
80 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
81
824.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
83 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
84 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
85 $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
86 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
87 instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
88 This also catches recursive invocations.
89 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
90
914.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
92 - port to threaded perls.
93
944.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
95 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
96 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
97 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
98 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
99 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
100 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
101 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
102 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
103 speeds up context switching a bit.
104 - further tune default stack sizes.
105 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
106 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
107 resulting in races between coroutines.
108 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
109 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
110 an unrelated coroutine.
111 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
112 more detail in Coro::State.
113 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
114 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
115 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
116 invalidating pointers.
117
1184.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
119 - added Coro::throw method.
120 - minor code cleanups.
121
1224.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
123 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
124 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
125 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
126 or use tracing).
127 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
128 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
129 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
130
1314.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
132 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
133 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
134
1354.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
136 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
137 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
138 debugging, tracing and much more.
139 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
140 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
141 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
142 flags.
143 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
144 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
145 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
146 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
147 - added Coro::killall.
148 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
149 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
150 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
151 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
152 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
153 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
154 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
155 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
156 - many minor tweaks.
157
1583.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
159 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
160
1613.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
162 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
163 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
164
1653.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
166 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
167 pst's sometimes.
168 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
169 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
170 be threadsafe...).
171 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
172 but stateful semantics.
173 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
174 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
175
1763.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
177 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
178 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
179 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
180 (EXPERIMENTAL).
181 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
182 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
183 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
184 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
185
1863.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
187 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
188 it by default.
189 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
190 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
191 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
192 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
193 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
194 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
195 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
196 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
197 performance.
198
1993.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
200 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
201 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
202
2033.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
204 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
205 them without asking.
206
2073.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
208 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
209 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
210 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
211 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
212 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
213 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
214
2153.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
216 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
217 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
218 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
219 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
220 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
221 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
222 obsolete platforms.
223
2243.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
225 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
226 but was rather flaky in practise.
227 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
228 it was reused.
229 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
230 in cede_notself.
231
2323.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
233 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
234 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
235 documented and - hopefully - improved.
236 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
237 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
238 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
239 that could errronously trigger.
240 - fix various large and small memleaks.
241 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
242 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
243 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
244 - added Coro::guard function.
245 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
246 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
247 and 128k coros with async_pool).
248 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
249
2503.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
251 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
252 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
253 - simplify configuration for users.
254 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
255 their coro replacements.
4 256
53.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006 2573.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
6 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even 258 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
7 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should 259 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
8 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :) 260 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)

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