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Revision 1.217 by root, Wed Apr 11 03:05:15 2007 UTC vs.
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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
84.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
9 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
10 the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
11 (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
12 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
13
144.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
15 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
16 and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
17 leading to crashes and worse.
18 - document force_cctx.
19
204.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
21 - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
22 to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
23
244.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
25 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
26 downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
27 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
28 (also add testcase).
29 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
30 apparently having loads of fun with that).
31 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
32
334.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
34 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
35 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
36 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
37 - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
38 Andreas König.
39
404.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
41 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
42 "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
43
444.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
45 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
46 trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
47
484.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
49 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
50 from longmess and also skips the innermost
51 stackframes, giving more useufl output.
52 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
53 at a <1% speed hit.
54 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
55 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
56
574.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
58 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
59
604.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
61 - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
62
634.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
64 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
65 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
66 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
67
684.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
69 - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
70
714.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
72 - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
73 when the stack changed.
74 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
75 (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
76 if available.
77 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
78 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
79 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
80
814.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
82 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
83 and Coro::Handle.
84
854.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
86 - fix a spurious memory read.
87 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
88
894.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
90 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
91 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
92 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
93 - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
94 does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
95 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
96 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
97 directly supported by Coro.
98 - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
99 stuff in Coro::Util.
100 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
101 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
102 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
103
1044.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
105 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
106 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
107 $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
108 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
109 instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
110 This also catches recursive invocations.
111 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
112
1134.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
114 - port to threaded perls.
115
1164.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
117 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
118 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
119 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
120 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
121 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
122 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
123 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
124 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
125 speeds up context switching a bit.
126 - further tune default stack sizes.
127 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
128 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
129 resulting in races between coroutines.
130 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
131 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
132 an unrelated coroutine.
133 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
134 more detail in Coro::State.
135 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
136 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
137 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
138 invalidating pointers.
139
1404.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
141 - added Coro::throw method.
142 - minor code cleanups.
143
1444.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
145 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
146 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
147 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
148 or use tracing).
149 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
150 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
151 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
152
1534.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
154 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
155 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
156
1574.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
158 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
159 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
160 debugging, tracing and much more.
161 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
162 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
163 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
164 flags.
165 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
166 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
167 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
168 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
169 - added Coro::killall.
170 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
171 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
172 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
173 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
174 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
175 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
176 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
177 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
178 - many minor tweaks.
179
1803.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
181 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
182
1833.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
184 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
185 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
186
1873.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
188 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
189 pst's sometimes.
190 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
191 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
192 be threadsafe...).
193 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
194 but stateful semantics.
195 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
196 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
197
1983.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
6 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again. 199 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
200 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
201 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
202 (EXPERIMENTAL).
203 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
204 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
205 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
206 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
7 207
83.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007 2083.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
9 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable 209 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
10 it by default. 210 it by default.
11 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle 211 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle

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