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1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2 2
3TODO: should explore PerlIO::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)).
7 7
84.748 8TODO: testcancel
9TODO: aio
10TODO: Coro::Semaphore
11TODO: trow disturbs cleanup path inside pp_slf?
12TODO: throw special-case in transfer?
135.0
14 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
15 stability issues.
16 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
17 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
18 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
19 ("Attempt to unreference...").
20 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
21 was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
22 would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where
23 it was available but waiters were waiting(.
24 - avoid deadlock in Coro::Channel if maxsize == 1 (Richard Hundt).
25 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported
26 anymore.
27 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede,
28 transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but
29 more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of
30 entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from
31 those functions and atcually create new ones.
32 - take advantage of __builtin_frame_address on gcc.
33 - expose THX in coroapi (not sure whether this was a wise decision,
34 as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways).
35 - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes
36 it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS.
37 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a
38 factor of two.
39 - removed timed_down and timed_guard functions - they were not being
40 used anyways and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
41 and were annoying to support anyways :)
42 - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a
43 factor of three.
44 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly 400% and
45 reduce its memory usage considerably.
46 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years.
47 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
48 pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
49
504.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008
51 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
52 ("Attempt to unreference...").
53
544.912 Thu Nov 13 18:31:23 CET 2008
55 - minor cleanups.
56 - use much larger stacks on linux and perl < 5.8.8.
57 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server did not unlink the socket
58 when destroyed.
59
604.911 Tue Nov 11 04:26:17 CET 2008
61 - "port" to threaded perls.
62
634.91 Mon Nov 10 05:36:38 CET 2008
64 - the ->throw exception object no longer leaks.
65 - creating a new cctx leaked a scopestack entry (memleak).
66 - new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field
67 (unknown impact).
68 - calling ->throw on a not-yet-started coroutine should now work
69 instead of being ignored.
70 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
71 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
72 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
73
744.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008
75 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
76 - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
77 also speed it up considerably.
78 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
79 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
80 - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
81 - Coro::State::cctx_stacksize wasn't applied correctly.
82 - new function Coro::State::cctx_max_idle.
83 - the default max number of idle C contexts is now 4.
84 - (libcoro) try harder to get _setjmp/_longjmp.
85 - (libcoro) cleanup and extend the libcoro API to officially
86 allow the creation of empty source contexts.
87 - very experimental workaround for the totally broken netbsd platform.
88 - tried to hack around openbsd bugs.
89
904.804 Wed Nov 5 16:36:00 CET 2008
91 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server would not create a non-blocking listening
92 socket, sometimes causing freezes.
93 - (libcoro) fix misaligned stack points for setjmp and assembly
94 methods, which can cause crashes on x86/x86_64 with a sufficiently
95 aggressive compiler.
96 - new function: Coro::Debug::new_tcp_server.
97 - move ->throw into the Coro class because it only works on coro objects.
98
994.803 Mon Nov 3 17:16:12 CET 2008
100 - (libcoro) use a global asm statement to become independent of gcc
101 otpimisations for CORO_ASM (thanks to pippijn for the idea).
102 - try to workaround yet another broken bsd, this time dragonfly.
103
1044.802 Thu Oct 30 10:56:12 CET 2008
105 - support -fno-omit-frame-pointer on x86 with the assembly method.
106 - tune 01_unblock.t tests a bit.
107
1084.801 Wed Oct 22 18:33:37 CEST 2008
109 - improve readline speed for very long "lines".
110 - backport to 5.8.8.
111
1124.8 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
113 - new function Coro::AIO::aio_wait.
114 - Coro.:AIO and Coro::BDB now "use Coro::AnyEvent".
115 - greatly speed up and reduce memory usage of Coro::AIO requests.
116 - implement some other ยต-optimisations.
117
1184.749 Mon Sep 29 14:40:12 CEST 2008
119 - port to slow and broken pseudo-threaded perls. (courtesy pippijn).
120
1214.748 Sat Sep 27 14:03:19 CEST 2008
9 - implement, but do not document, PerlIO::cede(granularity). 122 - implement, but do not document, PerlIO::cede(granularity).
10 - Coro::Storable forgot to wrap Storable::pstore. 123 - Coro::Storable forgot to wrap Storable::pstore.
11 - work around the multitude of leaks and memory corruption 124 - work around the multitude of leaks and memory corruption
12 bugs in PerlIO::via by using our own C-level perliol. 125 bugs in PerlIO::via by using our own C-level perliol. As a side
126 effect, Coro::Storable is now much, much, much faster.
13 127
144.747 Tue Sep 23 01:59:41 CEST 2008 1284.747 Tue Sep 23 01:59:41 CEST 2008
15 - fix a per-cv memleak (one empty array was leaked per 129 - fix a per-cv memleak (one empty array was leaked per
16 code reference). 130 code reference).
17 - avoid a crash in coro->call|rss when the coroutine was already 131 - avoid a crash in coro->call|rss when the coroutine was already

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