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1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2 2
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: channel->maxsize(newsize)?
5 actor model (which is cool in a lot of important aspects (failures!), 5TODO: __GCC_HAVE_DWARF2_CFI_ASM
6 but very lacking in others (higher level ipc)). 6TODO: swap_sv, maybe add scope_swap_sv, andallow to unswap by repeat?
7TODO: swap_sv not undone in pool
8TODO: croak when async_pool tries to run canceled thread?
7 9
8TODO: testcancel 106.45 Tue Jun 30 01:40:08 CEST 2015
9TODO: guard as SLF - to avoid deadlocks. 11 - restore portability to perl 5.16 and below.
10 - avoid deadlock in Coro::Channel if maxsize == 1 (Richard Hundt).
11 12
125.0 136.44 Tue Jun 30 00:41:54 CEST 2015
14 - avoid segfaulting (or worse) when tracing a canceled thread.
15 - the Event module silently broke it's public hook API, causing
16 failures on perls compiled with -Duselongdouble. Requiring
17 the latest version of Event because I don't know which release
18 changed this (it's not mentioned in the ChangeLog).
19 - allow xs level enterleave hooks via CoroAPI.
20
216.43 Thu Jun 4 15:38:14 CEST 2015
22 - use stability canary.
23 - port to stableperl-5.22.0-1.001.
24 - update libecb.
25
266.42 Wed Feb 11 20:29:52 CET 2015
27 - Coro::SemaphoreSet->try did not actually work (analyzed by
28 SATO Kentaro).
29 - upgrade libecb to be C11 compliant.
30
316.41 Sat Sep 6 22:08:46 CEST 2014
32 - restore portability to perl 5.8.x.
33 - give new Coro's a valid GvHV(PL_hintgv) - this is slow and takes
34 up some memory, but fixes "use feature" and similar modules
35 when used inside a Coro.
36 - allow zero as argument to Coro::Channel to mean the same thing
37 as no argument. this works with older versions as well,
38 but wasn't legal until now.
39 - slightly better c header file detection.
40
416.39 Mon Jun 2 00:00:08 CEST 2014
42 - work around more incompatible changes in 5.20.
43
446.38 Sun Jun 1 21:54:23 CEST 2014
45 - check that perl slots actually have enough space to hold
46 interpreter variables.
47 - untested port to perl 5.19 (64 bit tmps indices) (reported
48 by Andreas König).
49 - croak when cancel is called without a thread context.
50
516.37 Tue Mar 4 13:27:33 CET 2014
52 - *sigh*, removed leftover debugging code from debugging a
53 perl bug, of all things.
54
556.36 Tue Mar 4 07:11:59 CET 2014
56 - semaphores would not clear the destroy hook when interrupted
57 by ->throw, causing segfaults or worse.
58 - ->throw on a thread waiting for a semaphore did not acquire
59 the semaphore, but also didn't wake up other waiters,
60 possibly causing a deadlock.
61 - "FATAL: $Coro::IDLE blocked itself" will now use Carp::confess
62 to report a full stacktrace, which should help find out
63 where the actual call is.
64 - "atomically" destroy data in slf_destroy, because it is
65 the right thing to do, just in case.
66 - disable ecb.h libm dependency, to compile on ancient systems
67 or under adverse conditions.
68
696.33 Mon Nov 18 11:26:27 CET 2013
70 - do not crash when freeing padlists with holes (in 5.18).
71 - tentative SVt_BIND 5.19 port/fix.
72
736.32 Tue Nov 5 15:35:35 CET 2013
74 - use a new algorithm to derive padlists for perl 5.18. The old
75 one could lead to 0-pointer accesses inside perl (reported
76 by Darin McBride).
77
786.31 Thu May 9 07:39:48 CEST 2013
79 - Coro::AIO requests would crash if the thread was ready'd
80 while the request was ongoing.
81
826.29 Wed May 8 02:55:18 CEST 2013
83 - when an on_destroy handler destructs the coro currently being
84 destructed a perl scalar could be accessed after being freed,
85 likely causing a crash.
86
876.28 Wed Mar 6 06:58:02 CET 2013
88 - clean remnants of existing __DIE__ and __WARN__ handlers so
89 they lose their magic and will not cause segfaults later
90 (testcase by Andrey Sagulin).
91 - improved Coro::State documentation a bit.
92 - Coro::Debug::command now flushes the output.
93 - add hack detection code for x32 abi, because the braindead slugs
94 who designed that made it look exactly like x86_64 without
95 providing proper compile time symbols to test for it. as a result,
96 this detection cannot work reliably.
97 - valgrind stack registering was broken.
98 - do not rely on Time::HiRes anymore in Coro::Debug.
99
1006.23 Fri Dec 7 23:36:37 CET 2012
101 - use experimental fiber implementation on native windows
102 perls.
103 - use sizeof (void *) as multiplication factor for stack sizes,
104 to accomodate the totally braindamaged microsoft 64 bit "os".
105 - changed verifier host from win2k-ap510-32 to win7-sp516-32/64.
106 activeperl 5.16 crashes when PerlIO_define_layer is called due
107 to some bug in the perl dll, strawberry perl at least passes
108 the testsuite.
109 - implement Coro::Handle->peeraddr/host/port, for slightly
110 improved compatibility with LWP.
111 - implement 5.17 compatibility by almost blindly applying a
112 good-looking patch by Father Chrysostomos.
113 - move stack management functions into libcoro 3.
114 - libcoro version 3 "released".
115 - support magic values as timed_io_once args.
116 - recommend AnyEvent 7+ or EV 4+, also require EV
117 version 4 or newer for Coro::EV.
118
1196.10 Tue Oct 9 01:14:27 CEST 2012
120 - updated ecb.h, it had a typo that caused it to not compile on many
121 big endian systems (reported by many people).
122 - disable memory fences in ecb.h to improve portability.
123
1246.09 Sat Oct 6 23:25:02 CEST 2012
125 - Coro::EV I/O watchers were not interruptible by exceptions
126 (Coro::State::throw) (testcase by sten).
127 - ->throw now puts threads into the ready queue, as this seems to
128 be expected by existing code, and code that doesn't cope with spurious
129 wakeups needs fixing anyway.
130 - use fd -1 in mmap.
131 - cast I32 to int in error message printf.
132 - warn about broken so-called "hardened" kernels.
133
1346.08 Fri Apr 13 12:05:47 CEST 2012
135 - be more aggressive about exiting like perl does - formerly,
136 exiting from the non-main thread would not execute END blocks.
137
1386.07 Fri Nov 11 21:21:48 CET 2011
139 - work around a bug in PerlIO (setting $SIG{__WARN__} to a PVCV).
140 - update ecb.h.
141
1426.06 Mon Aug 8 23:59:48 CEST 2011
143 - cygwin unfortunately patches the stack at runtime, so we use the pthreads
144 backend, which is an order of magnitude slower. unfortunately, cygwins
145 pthread implementation isn't very complete either, so allocate the stack
146 twice just to be sure.
147 (note: cygwin also enables mymalloc, which is NOT THREADSAFE ON WINDOWS,
148 in its ithreaded perl - best recompile cygwin and use the 'w'indows
149 backend for much better performance. also disable ithreads for
150 even better performance...).
151
1526.05 Thu Aug 4 21:36:36 CEST 2011
153 - blush, condvar values would not be propagated from send to recv anymore
154 (reported by Chip Salzenberg).
155 - use exponential increase for the readline buffer length in
156 Coro::Handle. also reduce initial allocation to 1020 from 4096 bytes.
157
1586.04 Wed Aug 3 17:15:45 CEST 2011
159 - use even more efficient and more compatible condvars for
160 compatibility to AnyEvent 6.x :)
161 - more inconsequential ecb.h updates.
162
1636.03 Wed Aug 3 11:41:30 CEST 2011
164 - change how Coro patches AnyEvent condvars for compatibility to
165 AnyEvent 6.x.
166 - update ecb.h, to no longer include <pthread.h> in case WinNT.h
167 hasn't been included.
168
1696.02 Wed Jul 13 04:35:19 CEST 2011
170 - "improve portability to Gentoo" - gentoo manages to put perl variables
171 in memory areas that are farther than 2gb apart, which the jit couldn't
172 handle and barfed. now it's just a bit slower on gentoo and similar
173 systems.
174
1756.01 Sun Jul 3 12:31:14 CEST 2011
176 - workarounds are good, but the test for whether pthreads are used
177 was not good. this one should be better.
178 - check differently whether gcc generates cfi instructions itself.
179
1806.0 Wed Jun 29 19:43:35 CEST 2011
181 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: unreferenced coro objects will now be
182 destroyed and cleaned up automatically (e.g. async { schedule }).
183 - implement a JIT compiler for part of the thread switch code,
184 which gives a 50% speed improvement on threaded perls, and
185 about 4% on non-threaded perls (so threaded perls now finally
186 reach about half the speed of non-threaded perls).
187 - slightly modernise Coro::Intro, add section about rouse functions.
188 - avoid DEFSV and ERRSV, giving another 10% improvement
189 in thread switching.
190 - Coro::State->is_destroyed is now called is_zombie.
191 - implement a Coro->safe_cancel method that might fail, but
192 cancels in a "safer" way if it succeeds.
193 - add preliminary support for DEBUGGING perls.
194 - get rid of two hash-accesses when initialising a new Coro - this
195 speeds up coro creation by almost a factor of two.
196 - croak when a coro that is being cancelled tries to block
197 (e.g. while executing a guard block), instead of crashing or
198 deadlocking.
199 - use a more robust and also faster method to identify Coro::State
200 objects - speeds up everything a bit.
201 - implement Coro->cancel in XS for a 20% speed improvement, and to
202 be able to implement mutual cancellation.
203 - speed up context switches by a percent or two by more efficiently
204 allocating context stack entries.
205 - implement Coro->join and Coro->on_destroy in XS for a speedup and
206 a reduction in memory use.
207 - cancelling a coro while it itself is cancelling another coro is
208 now supported and working, instead of triggering an assertion.
209 - be a bit more crash-resistant when calling (buggy) on_destroy
210 callbacks (best effort).
211 - move on_destroy into the slf_frame, to allow extension slf
212 functions to have destructors.
213 - get rid if coro refcounting - simply crash in other interpreter
214 threads by nulling the pointers on clone.
215 - simplify warn/die hook handling when loading Coro - the convoluted
216 logic seems to be no longer neccessary.
217 - use libecb instead of our own home-grown gcc hacks.
218 - document alternatives to Coro::LWP. Please use them :)
219 - work around another mindless idiotic NEEDLESS bug in openbsd/mirbsds
220 sigaltstack. Really. wine suffers from it, erlang suffers from it,
221 and it's known since at least 2006.
222
2235.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011
224 - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to
225 work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to
226 my attention by Max Maischein).
227 - fix some portability issues when Time::HiRes was used.
228
2295.371 Mon Feb 21 14:36:08 CET 2011
230 - backport to windows process emulation code again.
231
2325.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011
233 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
234 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
235 introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
236 - no longer use Time::HiRes if gettimeofday is available, which
237 saves quite a lot of memory.
238
2395.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
240 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
241 Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
242 method call.
243 - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
244 - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
245 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
246 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
247
2485.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
249 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
250 working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
251 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
252 with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
253
2545.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
255 - port to the EV 4.0 API.
256 - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
257 out of the box.
258 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
259 so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
260 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
261
2625.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
263 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
264 Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
265 Waldorf).
266 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
267
2685.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
269 - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
270 (testcase by Marc Mims).
271 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
272 are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
273 functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
274 fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
275 with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
276 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
277 modules could have provided their own idle coro already
278 (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
279 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
280 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
281
2825.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
283 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
284 together.
285 - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
286 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
287 the most common source of confusion.
288 - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
289 - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
290 older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
291 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
292
2935.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
294 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
295 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
296 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
297 - new method $state->swap_sv.
298 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
299 after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
300 salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
301 were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
302 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
303 and maybe well enough for others to understand.
304 - use common::sense everywhere now.
305 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
306 - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
307
3085.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
309 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
310 when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
311 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
312 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
313 setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
314 - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
315
3165.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
317 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
318 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
319
3205.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
321 - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
322 used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
323 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
324 not on demand.
325 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
326
3275.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
328 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
329 when no threads had been readied between detecting
330 the event loop and actually running it.
331 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
332 of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
333 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
334 (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
335 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
336 and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
337 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
338 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
339 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
340 for hardcode select overriding.
341
3425.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
343 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
344 Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
345 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
346
3475.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
348 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
349 AnyEvent::Socket instead.
350 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
351 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
352 to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
353 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
354 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
355 reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
356 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
357 (Coro::State::enable_times).
358
3595.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
360 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
361 as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
362 idle_upto).
363 - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
364 - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
365 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
366 avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
367 had already been freed.
368 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
369 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
370 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
371 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
372 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
373 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
374 Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
375 (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
376 - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
377 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
378 - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
379 (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
380
3815.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
382 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
383 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
384 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
385 should support a prepare callback.
386
3875.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
388 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
389 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
390 the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
391
3925.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
393 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
394 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
395 spurious warnings.
396 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
397 - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
398 - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
399 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
400 - deprecate Coro::guard.
401 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
402 testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
403 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
404 - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
405 - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
406 when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
407 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
408 to avoid needless segfaults.
409
4105.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
411 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
412 compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
413 openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
414 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
415 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
416 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
417 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
418 - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
419 destruction.
420 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
421 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
422 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
423 - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
424 pthreads fare better?).
425 - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
426
4275.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
428 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
429 working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
430 it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
431
4325.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
433 - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
434 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
435 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
436 and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
437 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
438 LWP data transfers.
439 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
440 correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
441 objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
442 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
443 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably
444 doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
445 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
446 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
447 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
448 do not have this method (and don't need it either).
449 - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
450 callbacks.
451 - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
452 others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
453 through the idle threads now.
454 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
455 - eg/event was pretty broken.
456 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
457
4585.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
13 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience 459 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
14 stability issues. 460 stability issues.
15 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled. 461 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
16 - removed timed_* functions - they were not being used anyways 462 - removed timed_* functions - they were not being used anyways
17 and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism - 463 and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
18 and were annoying to support anyways :) 464 and were annoying to support anyways :)
19 - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem instead. 465 - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem method instead.
20 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters. 466 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
21 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice 467 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
22 ("Attempt to unreference..."). 468 ("Attempt to unreference...").
23 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that 469 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
24 was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available 470 was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
… …
26 it was available but waiters were still blocked). 472 it was available but waiters were still blocked).
27 - calling throw on a coroutine that is waiting for a semaphore will 473 - 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). 474 no longer make it acquire the semaphore (and thus leak a count).
29 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported 475 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported
30 anymore. 476 anymore.
31 - new functions Coro::rouse_cb and Coro::rouse_wait. 477 - new functions Coro::rouse_cb and Coro::rouse_wait for easier
478 conversion of callback-style to blocking-style.
479 - new methods $coro->schedule_to and ->cede_to, to specifically
480 schedule or cede to a specific coroutine.
32 - new function Coro::Semaphore::wait. 481 - new function Coro::Semaphore::wait.
33 - use named constants in Coro::Channel (Richard Hundt). 482 - use named constants in Coro::Channel (Richard Hundt).
34 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede, 483 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede,
35 transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but 484 transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but
36 more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of 485 more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of
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53 - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate 502 - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate
54 (in comparison) 20-40% speedup. 503 (in comparison) 20-40% speedup.
55 - used new SLF interface to reimplement Coro::Signal gaining 504 - used new SLF interface to reimplement Coro::Signal gaining
56 some unknown (because I was too lazy), but certain, speedup, and also 505 some unknown (because I was too lazy), but certain, speedup, and also
57 making signals reliable for the first time. 506 making signals reliable for the first time.
507 - used new SLF interface and other optimisations to speed up async_pool
508 by a factor of two. It also doesn't rely on perl's exception mechanism
509 to exit anymore. The overhead for terminating an async_pool, coro over
510 a normal async is now very small.
511 - sped up coroutine creation/destruction by 40%.
58 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years. 512 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years.
59 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as 513 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
60 pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd). 514 pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
61 - use new rouse functions to speed up and simplify Coro::BDB. 515 - use new rouse functions to speed up and simplify Coro::BDB.
62 - make "prefer perl native functions" work with threaded perls. 516 - make "prefer perl native functions" work with threaded perls.
517 - condense Coro::Debug ps output, hint at v and w flags.
63 - (libcoro) lots of minor cleanups and portability improvements. 518 - (libcoro) lots of minor cleanups and portability improvements.
519
5204.914 Wed Nov 19 12:54:18 CET 2008
521 - fix a disastrous bug in the readline optimisation
522 introduced in 4.801.
64 523
654.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008 5244.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008
66 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice 525 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
67 ("Attempt to unreference..."). 526 ("Attempt to unreference...").
68 527
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85 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects. 544 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
86 - clean up cctx creation code a bit. 545 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
87 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix). 546 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
88 547
894.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008 5484.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008
90 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there). 549 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
91 - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend, 550 - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
92 also speed it up considerably. 551 also speed it up considerably.
93 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed. 552 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
94 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile. 553 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
95 - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly. 554 - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
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157 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to 616 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to
158 make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves 617 make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves
159 outdated software). Reported by John S. 618 outdated software). Reported by John S.
160 619
1614.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008 6204.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008
162 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented. 621 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented.
163 - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current 622 - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current
164 implementations inside perl work fine for us. 623 implementations inside perl work fine for us.
165 624
1664.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008 6254.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008
167 - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could 626 - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could
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189 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress 648 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress
190 warnings for some other modules. 649 warnings for some other modules.
191 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK. 650 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
192 651
1934.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008 6524.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008
194 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way 653 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way
195 to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :( 654 to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :(
196 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to 655 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to
197 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...). 656 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...).
198 - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented 657 - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented
199 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage 658 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage
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203 - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around 662 - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around
204 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by 663 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by
205 tcp sockets on windows. ugh.) 664 tcp sockets on windows. ugh.)
206 665
2074.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008 6664.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008
208 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()"). 667 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()").
209 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util. 668 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util.
210 - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP. 669 - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP.
211 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother 670 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother
212 scheduling. 671 scheduling.
213 672
2144.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008 6734.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
215 - completely reworked the Coro manpage. 674 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
216 - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration. 675 - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
217 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug. 676 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
218 - document find_coro in Coro::Debug. 677 - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
219 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx. 678 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
220 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection, 679 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
221 use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB. 680 use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
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345 804
3464.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007 8054.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
347 - port to threaded perls. 806 - port to threaded perls.
348 807
3494.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007 8084.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
350 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now 809 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
351 be local to each coro (see Coro::State). 810 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
352 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself 811 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
353 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned. 812 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
354 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested). 813 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
355 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(. 814 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
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427 but stateful semantics. 886 but stateful semantics.
428 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David 887 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
429 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly). 888 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
430 889
4313.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007 8903.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
432 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again. 891 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
433 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw. 892 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
434 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit 893 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
435 (EXPERIMENTAL). 894 (EXPERIMENTAL).
436 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init. 895 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
437 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to 896 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to

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