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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's 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!), 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)?
7 10
115.2
12 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
13 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
14 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
15 - new method $state->swap_sv.
16 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
17 after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
18 salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
19 were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
20 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
21 and maybe well enough for others to understand.
22 - use common::sense everywhere now.
23 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
24 - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
25
265.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
27 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
28 when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
29 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
30 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
31 setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
32 - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
33
345.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
35 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
36 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
37
385.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
39 - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
40 used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
41 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
42 not on demand.
43 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
44
455.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
46 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
47 when no threads had been readied between detecting
48 the event loop and actually running it.
49 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
50 of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
51 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
52 (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
53 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
54 and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
55 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
56 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
57 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
58 for hardcode select overriding.
59
605.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
61 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
62 Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
63 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
64
655.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
66 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
67 AnyEvent::Socket instead.
68 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
69 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
70 to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
71 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
72 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
73 reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
74 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
75 (Coro::State::enable_times).
76
775.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
78 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
79 as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
80 idle_upto).
81 - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
82 - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
83 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
84 avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
85 had already been freed.
86 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
87 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
88 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
89 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
90 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
91 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
92 Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
93 (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
94 - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
95 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
96 - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
97 (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
98
995.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
100 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
101 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
102 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
103 should support a prepare callback.
104
1055.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
106 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
107 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
108 the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
109
1105.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
111 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
112 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
113 spurious warnings.
114 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
115 - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
116 - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
117 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
118 - deprecate Coro::guard.
119 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
120 testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
121 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
122 - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
123 - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
124 when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
125 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
126 to avoid needless segfaults.
127
1285.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
129 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
130 compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
131 openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
132 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
133 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
134 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
135 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
136 - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
137 destruction.
138 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
139 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
140 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
141 - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
142 pthreads fare better?).
143 - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
144
1455.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
146 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
147 working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
148 it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
149
1505.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
151 - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
152 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
153 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
154 and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
155 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
156 LWP data transfers.
157 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
158 correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
159 objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
160 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
161 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably
162 doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
163 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
164 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
165 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
166 do not have this method (and don't need it either).
167 - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
168 callbacks.
169 - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
170 others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
171 through the idle threads now.
172 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
173 - eg/event was pretty broken.
174 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
175
1765.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
177 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
178 stability issues.
179 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
180 - removed timed_* functions - they were not being used anyways
181 and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
182 and were annoying to support anyways :)
183 - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem method instead.
184 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
185 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
186 ("Attempt to unreference...").
187 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
188 was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
189 would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where
190 it was available but waiters were still blocked).
191 - calling throw on a coroutine that is waiting for a semaphore will
192 no longer make it acquire the semaphore (and thus leak a count).
193 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported
194 anymore.
195 - new functions Coro::rouse_cb and Coro::rouse_wait for easier
196 conversion of callback-style to blocking-style.
197 - new methods $coro->schedule_to and ->cede_to, to specifically
198 schedule or cede to a specific coroutine.
199 - new function Coro::Semaphore::wait.
200 - use named constants in Coro::Channel (Richard Hundt).
201 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede,
202 transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but
203 more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of
204 entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from
205 those functions and atcually create new ones.
206 - take advantage of __builtin_frame_address on gcc.
207 - expose THX in coroapi (not sure whether this was a wise decision,
208 as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways).
209 - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes
210 it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS.
211 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a
212 factor of two.
213 - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a
214 factor of three.
215 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of
216 four and reduce its memory usage considerably.
217 - implement Coro::SemaphoreSet purely in terms of Coro::Semaphore,
218 for a nice speedup and vastly more correct behaviour. Also implement
219 a new method "sem" to get at the underlying semaphore object.
220 - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate
221 (in comparison) 20-40% speedup.
222 - used new SLF interface to reimplement Coro::Signal gaining
223 some unknown (because I was too lazy), but certain, speedup, and also
224 making signals reliable for the first time.
225 - used new SLF interface and other optimisations to speed up async_pool
226 by a factor of two. It also doesn't rely on perl's exception mechanism
227 to exit anymore. The overhead for terminating an async_pool, coro over
228 a normal async is now very small.
229 - sped up coroutine creation/destruction by 40%.
230 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years.
231 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
232 pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
233 - use new rouse functions to speed up and simplify Coro::BDB.
234 - make "prefer perl native functions" work with threaded perls.
235 - condense Coro::Debug ps output, hint at v and w flags.
236 - (libcoro) lots of minor cleanups and portability improvements.
237
2384.914 Wed Nov 19 12:54:18 CET 2008
239 - fix a disastrous bug in the readline optimisation
240 introduced in 4.801.
241
2424.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008
243 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
244 ("Attempt to unreference...").
245
2464.912 Thu Nov 13 18:31:23 CET 2008
247 - minor cleanups.
248 - use much larger stacks on linux and perl < 5.8.8.
249 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server did not unlink the socket
250 when destroyed.
251
2524.911 Tue Nov 11 04:26:17 CET 2008
253 - "port" to threaded perls.
254
2554.91 Mon Nov 10 05:36:38 CET 2008
256 - the ->throw exception object no longer leaks.
257 - creating a new cctx leaked a scopestack entry (memleak).
258 - new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field
259 (unknown impact).
260 - calling ->throw on a not-yet-started coroutine should now work
261 instead of being ignored.
262 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
263 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
264 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
265
2664.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008
267 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
268 - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
269 also speed it up considerably.
270 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
271 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
272 - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
273 - Coro::State::cctx_stacksize wasn't applied correctly.
274 - new function Coro::State::cctx_max_idle.
275 - the default max number of idle C contexts is now 4.
276 - (libcoro) try harder to get _setjmp/_longjmp.
277 - (libcoro) cleanup and extend the libcoro API to officially
278 allow the creation of empty source contexts.
279 - very experimental workaround for the totally broken netbsd platform.
280 - tried to hack around openbsd bugs.
281
2824.804 Wed Nov 5 16:36:00 CET 2008
283 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server would not create a non-blocking listening
284 socket, sometimes causing freezes.
285 - (libcoro) fix misaligned stack points for setjmp and assembly
286 methods, which can cause crashes on x86/x86_64 with a sufficiently
287 aggressive compiler.
288 - new function: Coro::Debug::new_tcp_server.
289 - move ->throw into the Coro class because it only works on coro objects.
290
2914.803 Mon Nov 3 17:16:12 CET 2008
292 - (libcoro) use a global asm statement to become independent of gcc
293 otpimisations for CORO_ASM (thanks to pippijn for the idea).
294 - try to workaround yet another broken bsd, this time dragonfly.
295
2964.802 Thu Oct 30 10:56:12 CET 2008
297 - support -fno-omit-frame-pointer on x86 with the assembly method.
298 - tune 01_unblock.t tests a bit.
299
3004.801 Wed Oct 22 18:33:37 CEST 2008
301 - improve readline speed for very long "lines".
302 - backport to 5.8.8.
303
3044.8 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
305 - new function Coro::AIO::aio_wait.
306 - Coro.:AIO and Coro::BDB now "use Coro::AnyEvent".
307 - greatly speed up and reduce memory usage of Coro::AIO requests.
308 - implement some other µ-optimisations.
309
3104.749 Mon Sep 29 14:40:12 CEST 2008
311 - port to slow and broken pseudo-threaded perls. (courtesy pippijn).
312
3134.748 Sat Sep 27 14:03:19 CEST 2008
314 - implement, but do not document, PerlIO::cede(granularity).
315 - Coro::Storable forgot to wrap Storable::pstore.
316 - work around the multitude of leaks and memory corruption
317 bugs in PerlIO::via by using our own C-level perliol. As a side
318 effect, Coro::Storable is now much, much, much faster.
319
3204.747 Tue Sep 23 01:59:41 CEST 2008
321 - fix a per-cv memleak (one empty array was leaked per
322 code reference).
323 - avoid a crash in coro->call|rss when the coroutine was already
324 destroyed (most noticably when using Coro::Debug::ps :)
325 - also protect *Storable::FILE.
326 - push up default storable granularity to 20ms.
327
3284.746 Sun Sep 21 03:22:20 CEST 2008
329 - be more insistent on locking Storable against reentrancy
330 in Coro::Storable.
331 - move swap_def?v and throw to Coro::State, as documented.
332
3334.745 Thu Jul 24 00:14:38 CEST 2008
334 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to
335 make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves
336 outdated software). Reported by John S.
337
3384.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008
339 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented.
340 - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current
341 implementations inside perl work fine for us.
342
3434.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008
344 - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could
345 result in busy-waiting for events, this has been fixed.
346 - reduce codesize and improve performance by using EV_DEFAULT_UC.
347
3484.742 Sat May 31 14:10:21 CEST 2008
349 - implement a workaround for (some) perl <5.8.8 versions.
350 - require EV 3.3+.
351
3524.741 Fri May 30 23:33:09 CEST 2008
353 - tell netbsd how utterly broken their imitation of an OS is
354 and refuse to build by default if pthreads are in use.
355 - switch to "s" method on all bsd's by default, as their ucontext
356 stuff seems just too broken.
357 - fix a bug in Coro::Select.
358
3594.74 Thu May 29 20:05:31 CEST 2008
360 - do not test Coro::LWP for lack of dependencies.
361 - do not test Coro::Select for lack of working perls.
362
3634.73 Thu May 29 2008
364 - fix a bug in Coro::EV which would cause it to block despite
365 there being runnable coroutines.
8 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress 366 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress
9 warnings for some other modules. 367 warnings for some other modules.
368 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
10 369
114.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008 3704.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008
12 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way 371 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way
13 to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :( 372 to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :(
14 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to 373 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to

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