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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)).
7TODO: unready_all
8TODO: myhttpd header parsing
9TODO: channel->maxsize(newsize)?
7 10
8TODO: testcancel 11TODO: times per-coroutine
9TODO: aio 12 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
10TODO: Coro::Semaphore 13 AnyEvent::Socket instead.
11TODO: trow disturbs cleanup path inside pp_slf? 14 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
12TODO: throw special-case in transfer? 15 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
135.0 16 to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
17 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
18 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
19 reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
20
215.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
22 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
23 as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
24 idle_upto).
25 - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
26 - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
27 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
28 avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
29 had already been freed.
30 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
31 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
32 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
33 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
34 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
35 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
36 Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
37 (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
38 - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
39 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
40 - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
41 (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
42
435.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
44 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
45 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
46 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
47 should support a prepare callback.
48
495.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
50 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
51 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
52 the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
53
545.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
55 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
56 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
57 spurious warnings.
58 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
59 - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
60 - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
61 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
62 - deprecate Coro::guard.
63 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
64 testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
65 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
66 - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
67 - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
68 when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
69 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
70 to avoid needless segfaults.
71
725.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
73 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
74 compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
75 openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
76 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
77 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
78 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
79 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
80 - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
81 destruction.
82 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
83 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
84 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
85 - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
86 pthreads fare better?).
87 - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
88
895.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
90 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
91 working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
92 it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
93
945.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
95 - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
96 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
97 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
98 and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
99 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
100 LWP data transfers.
101 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
102 correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
103 objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
104 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
105 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably
106 doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
107 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
108 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
109 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
110 do not have this method (and don't need it either).
111 - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
112 callbacks.
113 - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
114 others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
115 through the idle threads now.
116 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
117 - eg/event was pretty broken.
118 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
119
1205.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
14 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience 121 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
15 stability issues. 122 stability issues.
16 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled. 123 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
124 - removed timed_* functions - they were not being used anyways
125 and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
126 and were annoying to support anyways :)
127 - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem method instead.
17 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters. 128 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
18 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice 129 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
19 ("Attempt to unreference..."). 130 ("Attempt to unreference...").
20 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that 131 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
21 was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available 132 was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
22 would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where 133 would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where
23 it was available but waiters were waiting(. 134 it was available but waiters were still blocked).
24 - avoid deadlock in Coro::Channel if maxsize == 1 (Richard Hundt). 135 - calling throw on a coroutine that is waiting for a semaphore will
136 no longer make it acquire the semaphore (and thus leak a count).
25 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported 137 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported
26 anymore. 138 anymore.
139 - new functions Coro::rouse_cb and Coro::rouse_wait for easier
140 conversion of callback-style to blocking-style.
141 - new methods $coro->schedule_to and ->cede_to, to specifically
142 schedule or cede to a specific coroutine.
143 - new function Coro::Semaphore::wait.
144 - use named constants in Coro::Channel (Richard Hundt).
27 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede, 145 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede,
28 transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but 146 transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but
29 more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of 147 more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of
30 entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from 148 entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from
31 those functions and atcually create new ones. 149 those functions and atcually create new ones.
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34 as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways). 152 as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways).
35 - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes 153 - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes
36 it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS. 154 it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS.
37 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a 155 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a
38 factor of two. 156 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 157 - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a
43 factor of three. 158 factor of three.
44 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly 40-60% and 159 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of
45 reduce its memory usage considerably. 160 four and reduce its memory usage considerably.
161 - implement Coro::SemaphoreSet purely in terms of Coro::Semaphore,
162 for a nice speedup and vastly more correct behaviour. Also implement
163 a new method "sem" to get at the underlying semaphore object.
164 - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate
165 (in comparison) 20-40% speedup.
166 - used new SLF interface to reimplement Coro::Signal gaining
167 some unknown (because I was too lazy), but certain, speedup, and also
168 making signals reliable for the first time.
169 - used new SLF interface and other optimisations to speed up async_pool
170 by a factor of two. It also doesn't rely on perl's exception mechanism
171 to exit anymore. The overhead for terminating an async_pool, coro over
172 a normal async is now very small.
173 - sped up coroutine creation/destruction by 40%.
46 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years. 174 - 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 175 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
48 pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd). 176 pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
177 - use new rouse functions to speed up and simplify Coro::BDB.
178 - make "prefer perl native functions" work with threaded perls.
179 - condense Coro::Debug ps output, hint at v and w flags.
180 - (libcoro) lots of minor cleanups and portability improvements.
181
1824.914 Wed Nov 19 12:54:18 CET 2008
183 - fix a disastrous bug in the readline optimisation
184 introduced in 4.801.
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51 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice 187 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
52 ("Attempt to unreference..."). 188 ("Attempt to unreference...").
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