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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)).
7 7
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 4.912 for the stable version.
15 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
16 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
17 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
18 ("Attempt to unreference...").
19 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
20 was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
21 would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where
22 it was available but waiters were waiting(.
23 - avoid deadlock in Coro::Channel if maxsize == 1 (Richard Hundt).
24 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported
25 anymore.
26 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede,
27 transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but
28 more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of
29 entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from
30 those functions and atcually create new ones.
31 - take advantage of __builtin_frame_address on gcc.
32 - expose THX in coroapi (not sure whether this was a wise decision,
33 as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways).
34 - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes
35 it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS.
36 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a factor
37 of two.
38 - removed timed_down and timed_guard functions - they were not being used
39 anyways and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism - and were
40 annoying to support anyways :
41 - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a factor
42 of three.
43 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years.
44 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
45 pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
46
474.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008
48 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
49 ("Attempt to unreference...").
50
514.912 Thu Nov 13 18:31:23 CET 2008
52 - minor cleanups.
53 - use much larger stacks on linux and perl < 5.8.8.
54 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server did not unlink the socket
55 when destroyed.
56
574.911 Tue Nov 11 04:26:17 CET 2008
58 - "port" to threaded perls.
59
604.91 Mon Nov 10 05:36:38 CET 2008
61 - the ->throw exception object no longer leaks.
62 - creating a new cctx leaked a scopestack entry (memleak).
63 - new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field
64 (unknown impact).
65 - calling ->throw on a not-yet-started coroutine should now work
66 instead of being ignored.
67 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
68 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
69 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
70
714.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008
72 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
73 - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
74 also speed it up considerably.
75 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
76 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
77 - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
78 - Coro::State::cctx_stacksize wasn't applied correctly.
79 - new function Coro::State::cctx_max_idle.
80 - the default max number of idle C contexts is now 4.
81 - (libcoro) try harder to get _setjmp/_longjmp.
82 - (libcoro) cleanup and extend the libcoro API to officially
83 allow the creation of empty source contexts.
84 - very experimental workaround for the totally broken netbsd platform.
85 - tried to hack around openbsd bugs.
86
874.804 Wed Nov 5 16:36:00 CET 2008
88 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server would not create a non-blocking listening
89 socket, sometimes causing freezes.
90 - (libcoro) fix misaligned stack points for setjmp and assembly
91 methods, which can cause crashes on x86/x86_64 with a sufficiently
92 aggressive compiler.
93 - new function: Coro::Debug::new_tcp_server.
94 - move ->throw into the Coro class because it only works on coro objects.
95
964.803 Mon Nov 3 17:16:12 CET 2008
97 - (libcoro) use a global asm statement to become independent of gcc
98 otpimisations for CORO_ASM (thanks to pippijn for the idea).
99 - try to workaround yet another broken bsd, this time dragonfly.
100
1014.802 Thu Oct 30 10:56:12 CET 2008
102 - support -fno-omit-frame-pointer on x86 with the assembly method.
103 - tune 01_unblock.t tests a bit.
104
1054.801 Wed Oct 22 18:33:37 CEST 2008
106 - improve readline speed for very long "lines".
107 - backport to 5.8.8.
108
1094.8 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
110 - new function Coro::AIO::aio_wait.
111 - Coro.:AIO and Coro::BDB now "use Coro::AnyEvent".
112 - greatly speed up and reduce memory usage of Coro::AIO requests.
113 - implement some other ยต-optimisations.
114
1154.749 Mon Sep 29 14:40:12 CEST 2008
116 - port to slow and broken pseudo-threaded perls. (courtesy pippijn).
117
1184.748 Sat Sep 27 14:03:19 CEST 2008
119 - implement, but do not document, PerlIO::cede(granularity).
120 - Coro::Storable forgot to wrap Storable::pstore.
121 - work around the multitude of leaks and memory corruption
122 bugs in PerlIO::via by using our own C-level perliol. As a side
123 effect, Coro::Storable is now much, much, much faster.
124
1254.747 Tue Sep 23 01:59:41 CEST 2008
126 - fix a per-cv memleak (one empty array was leaked per
127 code reference).
128 - avoid a crash in coro->call|rss when the coroutine was already
129 destroyed (most noticably when using Coro::Debug::ps :)
130 - also protect *Storable::FILE.
131 - push up default storable granularity to 20ms.
132
1334.746 Sun Sep 21 03:22:20 CEST 2008
134 - be more insistent on locking Storable against reentrancy
135 in Coro::Storable.
8 - move swap_def?v and throw to Coro::State, as documented. 136 - move swap_def?v and throw to Coro::State, as documented.
9 137
104.745 Thu Jul 24 00:14:38 CEST 2008 1384.745 Thu Jul 24 00:14:38 CEST 2008
11 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to 139 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to
12 make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves 140 make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves

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