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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
8 TODO: Coro/Intro 75.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011
8 - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to
9 work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to
10 my attention by Max Maischein).
11 - fix some portability issues when Time::HiRes was used.
12
135.371 Mon Feb 21 14:36:08 CET 2011
14 - backport to windows process emulation code again.
15
165.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011
17 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
18 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
19 introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
20 - no longer use Time::HiRes if gettimeofday is available, which
21 saves quite a lot of memory.
22
235.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
24 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
25 Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
26 method call.
27 - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
28 - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
29 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
30 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
31
325.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
33 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
34 working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
35 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
36 with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
37
385.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
39 - port to the EV 4.0 API.
40 - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
41 out of the box.
42 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
43 so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
44 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
45
465.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
47 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
48 Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
49 Waldorf).
50 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
51
525.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
53 - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
54 (testcase by Marc Mims).
55 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
56 are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
57 functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
58 fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
59 with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
60 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
61 modules could have provided their own idle coro already
62 (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
63 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
64 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
65
665.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
67 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
68 together.
69 - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
70 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
71 the most common source of confusion.
72 - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
73 - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
74 older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
75 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
76
775.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
78 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
79 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
80 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
81 - new method $state->swap_sv.
82 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
83 after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
84 salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
85 were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
86 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
87 and maybe well enough for others to understand.
88 - use common::sense everywhere now.
89 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
90 - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
91
925.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
93 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
94 when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
95 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
96 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
97 setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
98 - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
99
1005.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
101 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
102 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
103
1045.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
105 - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
106 used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
107 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
108 not on demand.
109 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
110
1115.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
112 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
113 when no threads had been readied between detecting
114 the event loop and actually running it.
115 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
116 of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
117 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
118 (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
119 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
120 and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
121 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
122 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
123 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
124 for hardcode select overriding.
125
1265.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
127 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
128 Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
129 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
130
1315.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
132 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
133 AnyEvent::Socket instead.
134 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
135 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
136 to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
137 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
138 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
139 reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
140 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
141 (Coro::State::enable_times).
142
1435.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
144 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
145 as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
146 idle_upto).
147 - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
148 - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
149 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
150 avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
151 had already been freed.
152 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
153 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
154 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
155 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
156 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
157 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
158 Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
159 (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
160 - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
161 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
162 - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
163 (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
164
1655.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
166 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
167 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
168 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
169 should support a prepare callback.
170
1715.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
172 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
173 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
174 the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
175
1765.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
177 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
178 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
179 spurious warnings.
180 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
181 - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
182 - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
183 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
184 - deprecate Coro::guard.
185 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
186 testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
187 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
188 - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
189 - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
190 when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
191 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
192 to avoid needless segfaults.
193
1945.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
195 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
196 compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
197 openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
198 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
199 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
200 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
201 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
202 - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
203 destruction.
204 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
205 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
206 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
207 - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
208 pthreads fare better?).
209 - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
210
2115.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
212 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
213 working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
214 it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
215
2165.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
9 - wrote a small introduction - Coro::Intro. 217 - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
10 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API. 218 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
11 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors 219 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
12 and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends. 220 and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
221 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
222 LWP data transfers.
13 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more 223 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
14 correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state 224 correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
15 objects, for added memory savings and speed increases. 225 objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
16 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default. 226 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
17 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably 227 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably

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