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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: http://www.microsoft.com/msj/archive/s2ce.aspx
6 but very lacking in others (higher level ipc)).
7 6
75.371 Mon Feb 21 14:36:08 CET 2011
8 - backport to windows process emulation code again.
9
105.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011
11 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
12 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
13 introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
14 - no longer use Time::HiRes if gettimeofday is available, which
15 saves quite a lot of memory.
16
175.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
18 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
19 Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
20 method call.
21 - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
22 - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
23 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
24 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
25
265.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
27 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
28 working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
29 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
30 with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
31
325.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
33 - port to the EV 4.0 API.
34 - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
35 out of the box.
36 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
37 so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
38 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
39
405.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
41 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
42 Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
43 Waldorf).
44 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
45
465.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
47 - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
48 (testcase by Marc Mims).
49 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
50 are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
51 functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
52 fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
53 with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
54 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
55 modules could have provided their own idle coro already
56 (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
57 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
58 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
59
605.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
61 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
62 together.
63 - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
64 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
65 the most common source of confusion.
66 - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
67 - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
68 older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
69 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
70
715.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
72 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
73 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
74 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
75 - new method $state->swap_sv.
76 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
77 after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
78 salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
79 were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
80 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
81 and maybe well enough for others to understand.
82 - use common::sense everywhere now.
83 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
84 - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
85
865.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
87 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
88 when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
89 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
90 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
91 setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
92 - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
93
945.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
95 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
96 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
97
985.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
99 - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
100 used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
101 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
102 not on demand.
103 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
104
1055.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
106 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
107 when no threads had been readied between detecting
108 the event loop and actually running it.
109 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
110 of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
111 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
112 (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
113 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
114 and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
115 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
116 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
117 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
118 for hardcode select overriding.
119
1205.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
121 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
122 Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
123 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
124
1255.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
126 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
127 AnyEvent::Socket instead.
128 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
129 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
130 to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
131 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
132 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
133 reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
134 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
135 (Coro::State::enable_times).
136
1375.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
138 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
139 as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
140 idle_upto).
141 - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
142 - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
143 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
144 avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
145 had already been freed.
146 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
147 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
148 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
149 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
150 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
151 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
152 Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
153 (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
154 - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
155 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
156 - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
157 (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
158
1595.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
160 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
161 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
162 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
163 should support a prepare callback.
164
1655.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
166 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
167 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
168 the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
169
1705.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
171 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
172 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
173 spurious warnings.
174 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
175 - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
176 - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
177 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
178 - deprecate Coro::guard.
179 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
180 testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
181 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
182 - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
183 - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
184 when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
185 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
186 to avoid needless segfaults.
187
1885.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
189 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
190 compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
191 openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
192 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
193 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
194 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
195 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
196 - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
197 destruction.
198 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
199 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
200 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
201 - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
202 pthreads fare better?).
203 - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
204
2055.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
206 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
207 working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
208 it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
209
2105.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
211 - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
8 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API. 212 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
9 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors 213 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
10 and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends. 214 and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
215 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
216 LWP data transfers.
217 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
218 correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
219 objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
11 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default. 220 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
12 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably 221 - 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). 222 doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
223 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
224 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
225 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
226 do not have this method (and don't need it either).
227 - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
228 callbacks.
229 - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
230 others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
231 through the idle threads now.
232 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
233 - eg/event was pretty broken.
234 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
14 235
155.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008 2365.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
16 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience 237 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
17 stability issues. 238 stability issues.
18 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled. 239 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.

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