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Revision 1.398 by root, Sun Nov 9 23:08:49 2008 UTC vs.
Revision 1.436 by root, Wed Nov 19 02:56:15 2008 UTC

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 7
84.91 8TODO: testcancel
9TODO: guard as SLF - to avoid deadlocks.
10 - avoid deadlock in Coro::Channel if maxsize == 1 (Richard Hundt).
11
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13 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
14 stability issues.
15 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
16 - removed timed_* functions - they were not being used anyways
17 and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
18 and were annoying to support anyways :)
19 - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem instead.
20 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
21 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
22 ("Attempt to unreference...").
23 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
24 was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
25 would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where
26 it was available but waiters were still blocked).
27 - calling throw on a coroutine that is waiting for a semaphore will
28 no longer make it acquire the semaphore (and thus leak a count).
29 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported
30 anymore.
31 - new function Coro::Semaphore::wait.
32 - use named constants in Coro::Channel (Richard Hundt).
33 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede,
34 transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but
35 more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of
36 entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from
37 those functions and atcually create new ones.
38 - take advantage of __builtin_frame_address on gcc.
39 - expose THX in coroapi (not sure whether this was a wise decision,
40 as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways).
41 - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes
42 it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS.
43 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a
44 factor of two.
45 - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a
46 factor of three.
47 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of
48 four and reduce its memory usage considerably.
49 - implement Coro::SemaphoreSet purely in terms of Coro::Semaphore,
50 for a nice speedup and vastly more correct behaviour. Also implement
51 a new method "sem" to get at the underlying semaphore object.
52 - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate
53 (in comparison) 20-40% speedup.
54 - used new SLF interface to reimplement Coro::Signal gaining
55 some unknown (because I was too lazy), but certain, speedup, and also
56 making signals reliable for the first time.
57 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years.
58 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
59 pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
60 - (libcoro) lots of minor cleanups and portability improvements.
61
624.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008
63 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
64 ("Attempt to unreference...").
65
664.912 Thu Nov 13 18:31:23 CET 2008
67 - minor cleanups.
68 - use much larger stacks on linux and perl < 5.8.8.
69 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server did not unlink the socket
70 when destroyed.
71
724.911 Tue Nov 11 04:26:17 CET 2008
73 - "port" to threaded perls.
74
754.91 Mon Nov 10 05:36:38 CET 2008
76 - the ->throw exception object no longer leaks.
77 - creating a new cctx leaked a scopestack entry (memleak).
9 - typo: new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field. 78 - new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field
79 (unknown impact).
80 - calling ->throw on a not-yet-started coroutine should now work
81 instead of being ignored.
82 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
10 - clean up cctx creation code a bit. 83 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
84 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
11 85
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13 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there). 87 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
14 - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend, 88 - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
15 also speed it up considerably. 89 also speed it up considerably.

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