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1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2 2
3TODO: should explore PerlIO::via::CoroCede and PerlIO::via::CoroAIO. 3TODO: should explore PerlIO::coroaio (perl leaks like hell).
4TODO: maybe implement a default message channel, very much like Erlang 4TODO: maybe implement a default message channel, very much like Erlang's
5 (which is cool in a lot of important aspects (failures!), 5 actor model (which is cool in a lot of important aspects (failures!),
6 but very lacking in others (higher level ipc)). 6 but very lacking in others (higher level ipc)).
7TODO: unready_all
8TODO: myhttpd header parsing
9TODO: channel->maxsize(newsize)?
10
11 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
12 after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
13 salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
14 were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
15 place).
16
175.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
18 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
19 when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
20 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
21 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
22 setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
23 - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
24
255.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
26 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
27 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
28
295.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
30 - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
31 used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
32 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
33 not on demand.
34 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
35
365.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
37 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
38 when no threads had been readied between detecting
39 the event loop and actually running it.
40 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
41 of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
42 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
43 (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
44 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
45 and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
46 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
47 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
48 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
49 for hardcode select overriding.
50
515.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
52 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
53 Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
54 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
55
565.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
57 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
58 AnyEvent::Socket instead.
59 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
60 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
61 to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
62 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
63 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
64 reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
65 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
66 (Coro::State::enable_times).
67
685.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
69 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
70 as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
71 idle_upto).
72 - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
73 - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
74 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
75 avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
76 had already been freed.
77 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
78 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
79 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
80 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
81 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
82 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
83 Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
84 (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
85 - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
86 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
87 - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
88 (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
89
905.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
91 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
92 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
93 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
94 should support a prepare callback.
95
965.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
97 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
98 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
99 the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
100
1015.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
102 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
103 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
104 spurious warnings.
105 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
106 - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
107 - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
108 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
109 - deprecate Coro::guard.
110 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
111 testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
112 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
113 - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
114 - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
115 when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
116 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
117 to avoid needless segfaults.
118
1195.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
120 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
121 compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
122 openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
123 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
124 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
125 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
126 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
127 - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
128 destruction.
129 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
130 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
131 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
132 - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
133 pthreads fare better?).
134 - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
135
1365.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
137 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
138 working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
139 it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
140
1415.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
142 - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
143 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
144 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
145 and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
146 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
147 LWP data transfers.
148 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
149 correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
150 objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
151 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
152 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably
153 doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
154 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
155 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
156 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
157 do not have this method (and don't need it either).
158 - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
159 callbacks.
160 - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
161 others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
162 through the idle threads now.
163 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
164 - eg/event was pretty broken.
165 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
166
1675.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
168 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
169 stability issues.
170 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
171 - removed timed_* functions - they were not being used anyways
172 and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
173 and were annoying to support anyways :)
174 - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem method instead.
175 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
176 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
177 ("Attempt to unreference...").
178 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
179 was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
180 would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where
181 it was available but waiters were still blocked).
182 - calling throw on a coroutine that is waiting for a semaphore will
183 no longer make it acquire the semaphore (and thus leak a count).
184 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported
185 anymore.
186 - new functions Coro::rouse_cb and Coro::rouse_wait for easier
187 conversion of callback-style to blocking-style.
188 - new methods $coro->schedule_to and ->cede_to, to specifically
189 schedule or cede to a specific coroutine.
190 - new function Coro::Semaphore::wait.
191 - use named constants in Coro::Channel (Richard Hundt).
192 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede,
193 transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but
194 more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of
195 entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from
196 those functions and atcually create new ones.
197 - take advantage of __builtin_frame_address on gcc.
198 - expose THX in coroapi (not sure whether this was a wise decision,
199 as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways).
200 - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes
201 it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS.
202 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a
203 factor of two.
204 - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a
205 factor of three.
206 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of
207 four and reduce its memory usage considerably.
208 - implement Coro::SemaphoreSet purely in terms of Coro::Semaphore,
209 for a nice speedup and vastly more correct behaviour. Also implement
210 a new method "sem" to get at the underlying semaphore object.
211 - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate
212 (in comparison) 20-40% speedup.
213 - used new SLF interface to reimplement Coro::Signal gaining
214 some unknown (because I was too lazy), but certain, speedup, and also
215 making signals reliable for the first time.
216 - used new SLF interface and other optimisations to speed up async_pool
217 by a factor of two. It also doesn't rely on perl's exception mechanism
218 to exit anymore. The overhead for terminating an async_pool, coro over
219 a normal async is now very small.
220 - sped up coroutine creation/destruction by 40%.
221 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years.
222 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
223 pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
224 - use new rouse functions to speed up and simplify Coro::BDB.
225 - make "prefer perl native functions" work with threaded perls.
226 - condense Coro::Debug ps output, hint at v and w flags.
227 - (libcoro) lots of minor cleanups and portability improvements.
228
2294.914 Wed Nov 19 12:54:18 CET 2008
230 - fix a disastrous bug in the readline optimisation
231 introduced in 4.801.
232
2334.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008
234 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
235 ("Attempt to unreference...").
236
2374.912 Thu Nov 13 18:31:23 CET 2008
238 - minor cleanups.
239 - use much larger stacks on linux and perl < 5.8.8.
240 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server did not unlink the socket
241 when destroyed.
242
2434.911 Tue Nov 11 04:26:17 CET 2008
244 - "port" to threaded perls.
245
2464.91 Mon Nov 10 05:36:38 CET 2008
247 - the ->throw exception object no longer leaks.
248 - creating a new cctx leaked a scopestack entry (memleak).
249 - new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field
250 (unknown impact).
251 - calling ->throw on a not-yet-started coroutine should now work
252 instead of being ignored.
253 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
254 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
255 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
256
2574.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008
258 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
259 - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
260 also speed it up considerably.
261 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
262 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
263 - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
264 - Coro::State::cctx_stacksize wasn't applied correctly.
265 - new function Coro::State::cctx_max_idle.
266 - the default max number of idle C contexts is now 4.
267 - (libcoro) try harder to get _setjmp/_longjmp.
268 - (libcoro) cleanup and extend the libcoro API to officially
269 allow the creation of empty source contexts.
270 - very experimental workaround for the totally broken netbsd platform.
271 - tried to hack around openbsd bugs.
272
2734.804 Wed Nov 5 16:36:00 CET 2008
274 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server would not create a non-blocking listening
275 socket, sometimes causing freezes.
276 - (libcoro) fix misaligned stack points for setjmp and assembly
277 methods, which can cause crashes on x86/x86_64 with a sufficiently
278 aggressive compiler.
279 - new function: Coro::Debug::new_tcp_server.
280 - move ->throw into the Coro class because it only works on coro objects.
281
2824.803 Mon Nov 3 17:16:12 CET 2008
283 - (libcoro) use a global asm statement to become independent of gcc
284 otpimisations for CORO_ASM (thanks to pippijn for the idea).
285 - try to workaround yet another broken bsd, this time dragonfly.
286
2874.802 Thu Oct 30 10:56:12 CET 2008
288 - support -fno-omit-frame-pointer on x86 with the assembly method.
289 - tune 01_unblock.t tests a bit.
290
2914.801 Wed Oct 22 18:33:37 CEST 2008
292 - improve readline speed for very long "lines".
293 - backport to 5.8.8.
294
2954.8 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
296 - new function Coro::AIO::aio_wait.
297 - Coro.:AIO and Coro::BDB now "use Coro::AnyEvent".
298 - greatly speed up and reduce memory usage of Coro::AIO requests.
299 - implement some other µ-optimisations.
300
3014.749 Mon Sep 29 14:40:12 CEST 2008
302 - port to slow and broken pseudo-threaded perls. (courtesy pippijn).
303
3044.748 Sat Sep 27 14:03:19 CEST 2008
305 - implement, but do not document, PerlIO::cede(granularity).
306 - Coro::Storable forgot to wrap Storable::pstore.
307 - work around the multitude of leaks and memory corruption
308 bugs in PerlIO::via by using our own C-level perliol. As a side
309 effect, Coro::Storable is now much, much, much faster.
310
3114.747 Tue Sep 23 01:59:41 CEST 2008
312 - fix a per-cv memleak (one empty array was leaked per
313 code reference).
314 - avoid a crash in coro->call|rss when the coroutine was already
315 destroyed (most noticably when using Coro::Debug::ps :)
316 - also protect *Storable::FILE.
317 - push up default storable granularity to 20ms.
318
3194.746 Sun Sep 21 03:22:20 CEST 2008
320 - be more insistent on locking Storable against reentrancy
321 in Coro::Storable.
322 - move swap_def?v and throw to Coro::State, as documented.
323
3244.745 Thu Jul 24 00:14:38 CEST 2008
325 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to
326 make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves
327 outdated software). Reported by John S.
328
3294.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008
330 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented.
331 - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current
332 implementations inside perl work fine for us.
333
3344.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008
335 - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could
336 result in busy-waiting for events, this has been fixed.
337 - reduce codesize and improve performance by using EV_DEFAULT_UC.
338
3394.742 Sat May 31 14:10:21 CEST 2008
340 - implement a workaround for (some) perl <5.8.8 versions.
341 - require EV 3.3+.
342
3434.741 Fri May 30 23:33:09 CEST 2008
344 - tell netbsd how utterly broken their imitation of an OS is
345 and refuse to build by default if pthreads are in use.
346 - switch to "s" method on all bsd's by default, as their ucontext
347 stuff seems just too broken.
348 - fix a bug in Coro::Select.
349
3504.74 Thu May 29 20:05:31 CEST 2008
351 - do not test Coro::LWP for lack of dependencies.
352 - do not test Coro::Select for lack of working perls.
353
3544.73 Thu May 29 2008
355 - fix a bug in Coro::EV which would cause it to block despite
356 there being runnable coroutines.
357 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress
358 warnings for some other modules.
359 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
360
3614.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008
362 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way
363 to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :(
364 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to
365 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...).
366 - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented
367 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage
368 of AnyEvent's workaround for that problem.
369 - use AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking in Coro::Handle to work around
370 a common perl implementation bug on windows.
371 - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around
372 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by
373 tcp sockets on windows. ugh.)
374
3754.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008
376 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()").
377 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util.
378 - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP.
379 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother
380 scheduling.
381
3824.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
383 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
384 - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
385 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
386 - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
387 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
388 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
389 use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
390
3914.6 Sat Apr 26 10:05:14 CEST 2008
392 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported
393 by the Coro module. It was a mistake to have it in the first place.
394 - (experimental) support for activestate perl 5.10 (method "w").
395 - (experimental) support for strawberry perl (method "a").
396 - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to,
397 actual impact unknown.
398
3994.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008
400 - make it compile again on 5.8.
401
4024.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008
403 - I did it twice! (see 4.49).
404
4054.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008
406 - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they
407 were compiled on 5.8 only.
408
4094.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
410 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
411 the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
412 (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
413 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
414
4154.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
416 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
417 and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
418 leading to crashes and worse.
419 - document force_cctx.
420
4214.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
422 - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
423 to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
7 424
84.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008 4254.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
9 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow 426 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
10 downloading of any file (reported by oesi). 427 downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
11 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt) 428 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)

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