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Revision 1.428 by root, Tue Nov 18 08:59:45 2008 UTC vs.
Revision 1.431 by root, Tue Nov 18 10:35:01 2008 UTC

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 8TODO: testcancel
9TODO: guard as SLF - to avoid deadlocks. 9TODO: guard as SLF - to avoid deadlocks.
10TODO: Coro::Signal as SLF.
10 - avoid deadlock in Coro::Channel if maxsize == 1 (Richard Hundt). 11 - avoid deadlock in Coro::Channel if maxsize == 1 (Richard Hundt).
11 12
125.0 135.0
13 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience 14 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
14 stability issues. 15 stability issues.
15 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled. 16 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
17 - removed timed_* functions - they were not being used anyways
18 and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
19 and were annoying to support anyways :)
20 - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem instead.
16 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters. 21 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
17 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice 22 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
18 ("Attempt to unreference..."). 23 ("Attempt to unreference...").
19 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that 24 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
20 was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available 25 was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
33 as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways). 38 as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways).
34 - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes 39 - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes
35 it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS. 40 it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS.
36 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a 41 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a
37 factor of two. 42 factor of two.
38 - removed timed_down and timed_guard functions - they were not being
39 used anyways and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
40 and were annoying to support anyways :)
41 - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a 43 - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a
42 factor of three. 44 factor of three.
43 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of 45 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of
44 four and reduce its memory usage considerably. 46 four and reduce its memory usage considerably.
47 - implement Coro::SemaphoreSet purely in terms of Coro::Semaphore,
48 for a nice speedup and vastly more correct behaviour. Also implement
49 a new method "sem" to get at the underlying semaphore object.
50 - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate
51 (in comparison) 20-40% speedup.
45 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years. 52 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years.
46 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as 53 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
47 pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd). 54 pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
48 55
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