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Revision 1.456 by root, Fri Nov 21 07:29:04 2008 UTC vs.
Revision 1.548 by root, Sun Feb 13 22:06:18 2011 UTC

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 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
10 introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
11
125.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
13 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
14 Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
15 method call.
16 - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
17 - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
18 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
19 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
20
215.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
22 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
23 working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
24 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
25 with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
26
275.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
28 - port to the EV 4.0 API.
29 - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
30 out of the box.
31 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
32 so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
33 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
34
355.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
36 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
37 Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
38 Waldorf).
39 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
40
415.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
42 - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
43 (testcase by Marc Mims).
44 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
45 are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
46 functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
47 fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
48 with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
49 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
50 modules could have provided their own idle coro already
51 (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
52 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
53 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
54
555.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
56 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
57 together.
58 - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
59 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
60 the most common source of confusion.
61 - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
62 - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
63 older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
64 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
65
665.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
67 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
68 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
69 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
70 - new method $state->swap_sv.
71 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
72 after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
73 salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
74 were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
75 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
76 and maybe well enough for others to understand.
77 - use common::sense everywhere now.
78 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
79 - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
80
815.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
82 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
83 when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
84 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
85 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
86 setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
87 - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
88
895.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
90 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
91 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
92
935.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
94 - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
95 used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
96 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
97 not on demand.
98 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
99
1005.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
101 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
102 when no threads had been readied between detecting
103 the event loop and actually running it.
104 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
105 of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
106 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
107 (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
108 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
109 and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
110 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
111 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
112 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
113 for hardcode select overriding.
114
1155.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
116 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
117 Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
118 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
119
1205.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
121 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
122 AnyEvent::Socket instead.
123 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
124 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
125 to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
126 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
127 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
128 reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
129 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
130 (Coro::State::enable_times).
131
1325.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
133 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
134 as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
135 idle_upto).
136 - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
137 - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
138 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
139 avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
140 had already been freed.
141 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
142 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
143 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
144 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
145 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
146 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
147 Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
148 (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
149 - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
150 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
151 - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
152 (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
153
1545.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
155 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
156 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
157 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
158 should support a prepare callback.
159
1605.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
161 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
162 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
163 the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
164
1655.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
166 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
167 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
168 spurious warnings.
169 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
170 - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
171 - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
172 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
173 - deprecate Coro::guard.
174 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
175 testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
176 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
177 - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
178 - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
179 when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
180 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
181 to avoid needless segfaults.
182
1835.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
184 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
185 compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
186 openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
187 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
188 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
189 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
190 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
191 - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
192 destruction.
193 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
194 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
195 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
196 - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
197 pthreads fare better?).
198 - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
199
2005.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
201 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
202 working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
203 it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
204
2055.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
206 - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
8 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API. 207 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
9 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors 208 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
10 and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends. 209 and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
210 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
211 LWP data transfers.
212 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
213 correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
214 objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
11 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default. 215 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
12 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably 216 - 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). 217 doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
218 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
219 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
220 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
221 do not have this method (and don't need it either).
222 - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
223 callbacks.
224 - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
225 others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
226 through the idle threads now.
227 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
228 - eg/event was pretty broken.
229 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
14 230
155.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008 2315.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
16 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience 232 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
17 stability issues. 233 stability issues.
18 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled. 234 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.

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