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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: destroy gets only called on cancel: fix(?) 4TODO: maybe implement a default message channel, very much like Erlang's
5 actor model (which is cool in a lot of important aspects (failures!),
6 but very lacking in others (higher level ipc)).
5 7
63.5 8 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
9 the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
10 (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
11 - drop support for 5.9.x versions, they are dead, jim.
12
134.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
14 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
15 and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
16 leading to crashes and worse.
17 - document force_cctx.
18
194.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
20 - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
21 to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
22
234.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
24 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
25 downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
26 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
27 (also add testcase).
28 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
29 apparently having loads of fun with that).
30 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
31
324.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
33 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
34 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
35 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
36 - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
37 Andreas König.
38
394.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
40 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
41 "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
42
434.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
44 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
45 trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
46
474.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
48 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
49 from longmess and also skips the innermost
50 stackframes, giving more useufl output.
51 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
52 at a <1% speed hit.
53 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
54 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
55
564.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
57 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
58
594.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
60 - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
61
624.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
63 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
64 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
65 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
66
674.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
68 - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
69
704.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
71 - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
72 when the stack changed.
73 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
74 (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
75 if available.
76 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
77 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
78 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
79
804.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
81 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
82 and Coro::Handle.
83
844.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
85 - fix a spurious memory read.
86 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
87
884.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
89 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
90 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
91 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
92 - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
93 does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
94 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
95 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
96 directly supported by Coro.
97 - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
98 stuff in Coro::Util.
99 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
100 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
101 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
102
1034.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
104 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
105 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
106 $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
107 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
108 instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
109 This also catches recursive invocations.
110 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
111
1124.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
113 - port to threaded perls.
114
1154.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
116 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
117 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
118 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
119 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
120 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
121 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
122 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
123 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
124 speeds up context switching a bit.
125 - further tune default stack sizes.
126 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
127 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
128 resulting in races between coroutines.
129 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
130 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
131 an unrelated coroutine.
132 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
133 more detail in Coro::State.
134 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
135 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
136 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
137 invalidating pointers.
138
1394.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
140 - added Coro::throw method.
141 - minor code cleanups.
142
1434.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
144 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
145 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
146 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
147 or use tracing).
148 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
149 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
150 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
151
1524.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
153 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
154 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
155
1564.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
157 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
158 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
159 debugging, tracing and much more.
160 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
161 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
162 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
163 flags.
164 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
165 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
166 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
167 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
168 - added Coro::killall.
169 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
170 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
171 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
172 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
173 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
174 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
175 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
176 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
177 - many minor tweaks.
178
1793.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
180 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
181
1823.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
183 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
184 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
185
1863.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
187 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
188 pst's sometimes.
189 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
190 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
191 be threadsafe...).
192 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
193 but stateful semantics.
194 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
195 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
196
1973.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
198 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
199 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
200 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
201 (EXPERIMENTAL).
202 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
203 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
204 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
205 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
206
2073.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
208 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
209 it by default.
210 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
211 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
212 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
213 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
214 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
215 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
216 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
217 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
218 performance.
219
2203.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
221 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
222 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
223
2243.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
225 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
226 them without asking.
227
2283.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
7 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems 229 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
8 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event. 230 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
9 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects. 231 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
10 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes. 232 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
11 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine, 233 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,

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