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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: unready_all
5 actor model (which is cool in a lot of important aspects (failures!), 5TODO: myhttpd header parsing
6 but very lacking in others (higher level ipc)). 6TODO: channel->maxsize(newsize)?
7TODO: http://www.microsoft.com/msj/archive/s2ce.aspx
7 8
9 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
10
115.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
12 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
13 Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
14 Waldorf).
15 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
16
175.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
18 - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
19 (testcase by Marc Mims).
20 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
21 are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
22 functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
23 fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
24 with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
25 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
26 modules could have provided their own idle coro already
27 (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
28 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
29 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
30
315.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
32 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
33 together.
34 - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
35 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
36 the most common source of confusion.
37 - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
38 - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
39 older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
40 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
41
425.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
43 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
44 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
45 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
46 - new method $state->swap_sv.
47 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
48 after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
49 salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
50 were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
51 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
52 and maybe well enough for others to understand.
53 - use common::sense everywhere now.
54 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
55 - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
56
575.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
58 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
59 when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
60 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
61 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
62 setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
63 - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
64
655.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
66 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
67 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
68
695.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
70 - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
71 used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
72 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
73 not on demand.
74 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
75
765.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
77 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
78 when no threads had been readied between detecting
79 the event loop and actually running it.
80 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
81 of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
82 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
83 (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
84 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
85 and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
86 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
87 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
88 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
89 for hardcode select overriding.
90
915.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
92 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
93 Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
94 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
95
965.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
97 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
98 AnyEvent::Socket instead.
99 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
100 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
101 to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
102 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
103 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
104 reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
105 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
106 (Coro::State::enable_times).
107
1085.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
109 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
110 as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
111 idle_upto).
112 - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
113 - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
114 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
115 avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
116 had already been freed.
117 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
118 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
119 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
120 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
121 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
122 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
123 Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
124 (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
125 - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
126 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
127 - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
128 (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
129
1305.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
131 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
132 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
133 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
134 should support a prepare callback.
135
1365.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
137 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
138 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
139 the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
140
1415.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
142 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
143 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
144 spurious warnings.
145 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
146 - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
147 - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
148 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
149 - deprecate Coro::guard.
150 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
151 testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
152 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
153 - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
154 - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
155 when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
156 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
157 to avoid needless segfaults.
158
1595.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
160 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
161 compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
162 openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
163 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
164 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
165 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
166 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
167 - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
168 destruction.
169 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
170 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
171 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
172 - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
173 pthreads fare better?).
174 - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
175
1765.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
177 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
178 working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
179 it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
180
1815.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
182 - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
8 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API. 183 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
9 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors 184 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
10 and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends. 185 and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
186 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
187 LWP data transfers.
188 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
189 correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
190 objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
191 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
192 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably
193 doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
194 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
195 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
196 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
197 do not have this method (and don't need it either).
198 - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
199 callbacks.
200 - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
201 others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
202 through the idle threads now.
203 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
204 - eg/event was pretty broken.
205 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
11 206
125.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008 2075.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
13 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience 208 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
14 stability issues. 209 stability issues.
15 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled. 210 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.

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