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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: "internals mode" 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
84.748
9 - Coro::Storable forgot to wrap Storable::pstore.
10
114.747 Tue Sep 23 01:59:41 CEST 2008
12 - fix a per-cv memleak (one empty array was leaked per
13 code reference).
14 - avoid a crash in coro->call|rss when the coroutine was already
15 destroyed (most noticably when using Coro::Debug::ps :)
16 - also protect *Storable::FILE.
17 - push up default storable granularity to 20ms.
18
194.746 Sun Sep 21 03:22:20 CEST 2008
20 - be more insistent on locking Storable against reentrancy
21 in Coro::Storable.
22 - move swap_def?v and throw to Coro::State, as documented.
23
244.745 Thu Jul 24 00:14:38 CEST 2008
25 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to
26 make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves
27 outdated software). Reported by John S.
28
294.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008
30 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented.
31 - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current
32 implementations inside perl work fine for us.
33
344.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008
35 - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could
36 result in busy-waiting for events, this has been fixed.
37 - reduce codesize and improve performance by using EV_DEFAULT_UC.
38
394.742 Sat May 31 14:10:21 CEST 2008
40 - implement a workaround for (some) perl <5.8.8 versions.
41 - require EV 3.3+.
42
434.741 Fri May 30 23:33:09 CEST 2008
44 - tell netbsd how utterly broken their imitation of an OS is
45 and refuse to build by default if pthreads are in use.
46 - switch to "s" method on all bsd's by default, as their ucontext
47 stuff seems just too broken.
48 - fix a bug in Coro::Select.
49
504.74 Thu May 29 20:05:31 CEST 2008
51 - do not test Coro::LWP for lack of dependencies.
52 - do not test Coro::Select for lack of working perls.
53
544.73 Thu May 29 2008
55 - fix a bug in Coro::EV which would cause it to block despite
56 there being runnable coroutines.
57 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress
58 warnings for some other modules.
59 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
60
614.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008
62 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way
63 to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :(
64 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to
65 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...).
66 - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented
67 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage
68 of AnyEvent's workaround for that problem.
69 - use AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking in Coro::Handle to work around
70 a common perl implementation bug on windows.
71 - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around
72 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by
73 tcp sockets on windows. ugh.)
74
754.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008
76 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()").
77 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util.
78 - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP.
79 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother
80 scheduling.
81
824.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
83 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
84 - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
85 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
86 - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
87 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
88 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
89 use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
90
914.6 Sat Apr 26 10:05:14 CEST 2008
92 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported
93 by the Coro module. It was a mistake to have it in the first place.
94 - (experimental) support for activestate perl 5.10 (method "w").
95 - (experimental) support for strawberry perl (method "a").
96 - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to,
97 actual impact unknown.
98
994.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008
100 - make it compile again on 5.8.
101
1024.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008
103 - I did it twice! (see 4.49).
104
1054.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008
106 - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they
107 were compiled on 5.8 only.
108
1094.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
110 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
111 the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
112 (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
113 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
114
1154.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
116 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
117 and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
118 leading to crashes and worse.
119 - document force_cctx.
120
1214.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
122 - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
123 to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
124
1254.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
126 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
127 downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
128 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
129 (also add testcase).
130 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
131 apparently having loads of fun with that).
132 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
133
1344.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
135 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
136 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
137 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
138 - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
139 Andreas König.
140
1414.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
142 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
143 "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
144
1454.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
146 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
147 trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
148
1494.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
150 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
151 from longmess and also skips the innermost
152 stackframes, giving more useufl output.
153 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
154 at a <1% speed hit.
155 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
156 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
157
1584.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
159 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
160
1614.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
162 - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
163
1644.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
165 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
166 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
167 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
168
1694.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
170 - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
171
1724.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
173 - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
174 when the stack changed.
175 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
176 (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
177 if available.
178 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
179 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
180 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
181
1824.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
183 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
184 and Coro::Handle.
185
1864.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
187 - fix a spurious memory read.
188 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
189
1904.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
191 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
192 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
193 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
194 - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
195 does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
196 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
197 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
198 directly supported by Coro.
199 - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
200 stuff in Coro::Util.
201 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
202 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
203 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
204
2054.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
206 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
207 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
208 $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
209 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
210 instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
211 This also catches recursive invocations.
212 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
213
2144.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
215 - port to threaded perls.
216
2174.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
218 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
219 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
220 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
221 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
222 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
223 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
224 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
225 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
226 speeds up context switching a bit.
227 - further tune default stack sizes.
228 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
229 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
230 resulting in races between coroutines.
231 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
232 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
233 an unrelated coroutine.
234 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
235 more detail in Coro::State.
236 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
237 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
238 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
239 invalidating pointers.
240
2414.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
242 - added Coro::throw method.
243 - minor code cleanups.
244
2454.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
246 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
247 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
248 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
249 or use tracing).
250 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
251 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
252 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
253
2544.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
255 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
256 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
257
2584.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
259 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
260 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
261 debugging, tracing and much more.
262 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
263 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
264 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
265 flags.
266 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
267 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
268 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
269 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
270 - added Coro::killall.
271 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
272 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
273 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
274 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
275 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
276 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
277 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
278 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
279 - many minor tweaks.
280
2813.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
282 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
283
2843.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
285 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
286 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
287
2883.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
289 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
290 pst's sometimes.
291 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
292 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
293 be threadsafe...).
294 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
295 but stateful semantics.
296 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
297 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
298
2993.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
300 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
301 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
302 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
303 (EXPERIMENTAL).
304 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
305 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
306 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
307 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
308
3093.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
310 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
311 it by default.
312 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
313 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
314 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
315 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
316 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
317 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
318 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
319 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
320 performance.
321
3223.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
323 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
324 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
325
3263.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
327 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
328 them without asking.
329
3303.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
331 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
332 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
333 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
334 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
335 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
336 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
337
3383.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
339 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
340 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
341 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
342 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
343 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
344 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
345 obsolete platforms.
346
3473.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
348 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
349 but was rather flaky in practise.
350 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
351 it was reused.
352 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
353 in cede_notself.
354
3553.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
356 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
357 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
358 documented and - hopefully - improved.
359 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
360 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
361 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
362 that could errronously trigger.
363 - fix various large and small memleaks.
364 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
365 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
366 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
367 - added Coro::guard function.
368 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
369 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
370 and 128k coros with async_pool).
371 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
372
3733.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
6 - improve portability to slightly older perls. 374 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
7 - use cleaner coroutine destruction. 375 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
376 - simplify configuration for users.
377 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
378 their coro replacements.
8 379
93.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006 3803.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
10 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even 381 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
11 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should 382 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
12 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :) 383 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)

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