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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 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
10 Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
11 method call.
12 - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
13 - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
14
155.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
16 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
17 working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
18 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
19 with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
20
215.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
22 - port to the EV 4.0 API.
23 - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
24 out of the box.
25 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
26 so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
27 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
28
295.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
30 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
31 Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
32 Waldorf).
33 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
34
355.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
36 - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
37 (testcase by Marc Mims).
38 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
39 are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
40 functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
41 fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
42 with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
43 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
44 modules could have provided their own idle coro already
45 (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
46 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
47 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
48
495.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
50 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
51 together.
52 - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
53 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
54 the most common source of confusion.
55 - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
56 - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
57 older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
58 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
59
605.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
61 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
62 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
63 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
64 - new method $state->swap_sv.
65 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
66 after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
67 salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
68 were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
69 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
70 and maybe well enough for others to understand.
71 - use common::sense everywhere now.
72 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
73 - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
74
755.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
76 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
77 when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
78 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
79 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
80 setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
81 - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
82
835.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
84 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
85 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
86
875.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
88 - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
89 used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
90 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
91 not on demand.
92 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
93
945.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
95 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
96 when no threads had been readied between detecting
97 the event loop and actually running it.
98 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
99 of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
100 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
101 (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
102 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
103 and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
104 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
105 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
106 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
107 for hardcode select overriding.
108
1095.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
110 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
111 Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
112 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
113
1145.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
115 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
116 AnyEvent::Socket instead.
117 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
118 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
119 to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
120 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
121 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
122 reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
123 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
124 (Coro::State::enable_times).
125
1265.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
127 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
128 as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
129 idle_upto).
130 - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
131 - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
132 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
133 avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
134 had already been freed.
135 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
136 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
137 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
138 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
139 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
140 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
141 Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
142 (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
143 - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
144 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
145 - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
146 (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
147
1485.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
149 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
150 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
151 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
152 should support a prepare callback.
153
1545.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
155 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
156 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
157 the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
158
1595.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
160 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
161 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
162 spurious warnings.
163 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
164 - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
165 - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
166 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
167 - deprecate Coro::guard.
168 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
169 testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
170 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
171 - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
172 - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
173 when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
174 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
175 to avoid needless segfaults.
176
1775.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
178 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
179 compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
180 openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
181 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
182 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
183 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
184 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
185 - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
186 destruction.
187 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
188 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
189 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
190 - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
191 pthreads fare better?).
192 - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
193
1945.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
195 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
196 working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
197 it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
198
1995.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
200 - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
8 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API. 201 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
9 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors 202 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
10 and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends. 203 and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
204 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
205 LWP data transfers.
206 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
207 correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
208 objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
11 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default. 209 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
12 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably 210 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably
13 doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub). 211 doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
212 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
213 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
214 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
215 do not have this method (and don't need it either).
216 - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
217 callbacks.
218 - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
219 others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
220 through the idle threads now.
221 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
222 - eg/event was pretty broken.
223 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
14 224
155.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008 2255.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
16 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience 226 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
17 stability issues. 227 stability issues.
18 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled. 228 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.

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