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Revision 1.382 by root, Wed Oct 22 16:34:07 2008 UTC vs.
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3TODO: should explore PerlIO::coroaio (perl leaks like hell). 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
8new -> ready
9new -> canceled
10ready -> running
11ready -> canceled
12running -> ready
13running -> blocked
14running -> canceled
15blocked -> ready
16blocked -> canceled
17
18 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
19 spurious warnings.
20 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
21 - deprecate Coro::guard.
22
235.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
24 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
25 compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
26 openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
27 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
28 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
29 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
30 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
31 - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
32 destruction.
33 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
34 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
35 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
36 - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
37 pthreads fare better?).
38 - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
39
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41 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
42 working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
43 it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
44
455.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
46 - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
47 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
48 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
49 and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
50 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
51 LWP data transfers.
52 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
53 correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
54 objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
55 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
56 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably
57 doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
58 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
59 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
60 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
61 do not have this method (and don't need it either).
62 - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
63 callbacks.
64 - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
65 others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
66 through the idle threads now.
67 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
68 - eg/event was pretty broken.
69 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
70
715.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
72 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
73 stability issues.
74 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
75 - removed timed_* functions - they were not being used anyways
76 and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
77 and were annoying to support anyways :)
78 - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem method instead.
79 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
80 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
81 ("Attempt to unreference...").
82 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
83 was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
84 would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where
85 it was available but waiters were still blocked).
86 - calling throw on a coroutine that is waiting for a semaphore will
87 no longer make it acquire the semaphore (and thus leak a count).
88 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported
89 anymore.
90 - new functions Coro::rouse_cb and Coro::rouse_wait for easier
91 conversion of callback-style to blocking-style.
92 - new methods $coro->schedule_to and ->cede_to, to specifically
93 schedule or cede to a specific coroutine.
94 - new function Coro::Semaphore::wait.
95 - use named constants in Coro::Channel (Richard Hundt).
96 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede,
97 transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but
98 more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of
99 entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from
100 those functions and atcually create new ones.
101 - take advantage of __builtin_frame_address on gcc.
102 - expose THX in coroapi (not sure whether this was a wise decision,
103 as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways).
104 - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes
105 it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS.
106 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a
107 factor of two.
108 - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a
109 factor of three.
110 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of
111 four and reduce its memory usage considerably.
112 - implement Coro::SemaphoreSet purely in terms of Coro::Semaphore,
113 for a nice speedup and vastly more correct behaviour. Also implement
114 a new method "sem" to get at the underlying semaphore object.
115 - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate
116 (in comparison) 20-40% speedup.
117 - used new SLF interface to reimplement Coro::Signal gaining
118 some unknown (because I was too lazy), but certain, speedup, and also
119 making signals reliable for the first time.
120 - used new SLF interface and other optimisations to speed up async_pool
121 by a factor of two. It also doesn't rely on perl's exception mechanism
122 to exit anymore. The overhead for terminating an async_pool, coro over
123 a normal async is now very small.
124 - sped up coroutine creation/destruction by 40%.
125 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years.
126 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
127 pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
128 - use new rouse functions to speed up and simplify Coro::BDB.
129 - make "prefer perl native functions" work with threaded perls.
130 - condense Coro::Debug ps output, hint at v and w flags.
131 - (libcoro) lots of minor cleanups and portability improvements.
132
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134 - fix a disastrous bug in the readline optimisation
135 introduced in 4.801.
136
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138 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
139 ("Attempt to unreference...").
140
1414.912 Thu Nov 13 18:31:23 CET 2008
142 - minor cleanups.
143 - use much larger stacks on linux and perl < 5.8.8.
144 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server did not unlink the socket
145 when destroyed.
146
1474.911 Tue Nov 11 04:26:17 CET 2008
148 - "port" to threaded perls.
149
1504.91 Mon Nov 10 05:36:38 CET 2008
151 - the ->throw exception object no longer leaks.
152 - creating a new cctx leaked a scopestack entry (memleak).
153 - new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field
154 (unknown impact).
155 - calling ->throw on a not-yet-started coroutine should now work
156 instead of being ignored.
157 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
158 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
159 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
160
1614.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008
162 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
163 - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
164 also speed it up considerably.
165 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
166 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
167 - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
168 - Coro::State::cctx_stacksize wasn't applied correctly.
169 - new function Coro::State::cctx_max_idle.
170 - the default max number of idle C contexts is now 4.
171 - (libcoro) try harder to get _setjmp/_longjmp.
172 - (libcoro) cleanup and extend the libcoro API to officially
173 allow the creation of empty source contexts.
174 - very experimental workaround for the totally broken netbsd platform.
175 - tried to hack around openbsd bugs.
176
1774.804 Wed Nov 5 16:36:00 CET 2008
178 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server would not create a non-blocking listening
179 socket, sometimes causing freezes.
180 - (libcoro) fix misaligned stack points for setjmp and assembly
181 methods, which can cause crashes on x86/x86_64 with a sufficiently
182 aggressive compiler.
183 - new function: Coro::Debug::new_tcp_server.
184 - move ->throw into the Coro class because it only works on coro objects.
185
1864.803 Mon Nov 3 17:16:12 CET 2008
187 - (libcoro) use a global asm statement to become independent of gcc
188 otpimisations for CORO_ASM (thanks to pippijn for the idea).
189 - try to workaround yet another broken bsd, this time dragonfly.
190
1914.802 Thu Oct 30 10:56:12 CET 2008
192 - support -fno-omit-frame-pointer on x86 with the assembly method.
193 - tune 01_unblock.t tests a bit.
7 194
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9 - improve readline speed for very long "lines". 196 - improve readline speed for very long "lines".
10 - backport to 5.8.8. 197 - backport to 5.8.8.
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