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1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2 2
3TODO: should explore PerlIO::via::CoroCede and PerlIO::via::CoroAIO. 3TODO: should explore PerlIO::coroaio (perl leaks like hell).
4TODO: maybe implement a default message channel, very much like Erlang 4TODO: maybe implement a default message channel, very much like Erlang's
5 (which is cool in a lot of important aspects (failures!), 5 actor model (which is cool in a lot of important aspects (failures!),
6 but very lacking in others (higher level ipc)). 6 but very lacking in others (higher level ipc)).
7
85.11
9 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
10 working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
11 it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
12
135.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
14 - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
15 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
16 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
17 and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
18 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
19 LWP data transfers.
20 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
21 correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
22 objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
23 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
24 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably
25 doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
26 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
27 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
28 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
29 do not have this method (and don't need it either).
30 - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
31 callbacks.
32 - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
33 others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
34 through the idle threads now.
35 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
36 - eg/event was pretty broken.
37 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
38
395.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
40 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
41 stability issues.
42 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
43 - removed timed_* functions - they were not being used anyways
44 and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
45 and were annoying to support anyways :)
46 - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem method instead.
47 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
48 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
49 ("Attempt to unreference...").
50 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
51 was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
52 would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where
53 it was available but waiters were still blocked).
54 - calling throw on a coroutine that is waiting for a semaphore will
55 no longer make it acquire the semaphore (and thus leak a count).
56 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported
57 anymore.
58 - new functions Coro::rouse_cb and Coro::rouse_wait for easier
59 conversion of callback-style to blocking-style.
60 - new methods $coro->schedule_to and ->cede_to, to specifically
61 schedule or cede to a specific coroutine.
62 - new function Coro::Semaphore::wait.
63 - use named constants in Coro::Channel (Richard Hundt).
64 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede,
65 transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but
66 more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of
67 entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from
68 those functions and atcually create new ones.
69 - take advantage of __builtin_frame_address on gcc.
70 - expose THX in coroapi (not sure whether this was a wise decision,
71 as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways).
72 - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes
73 it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS.
74 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a
75 factor of two.
76 - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a
77 factor of three.
78 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of
79 four and reduce its memory usage considerably.
80 - implement Coro::SemaphoreSet purely in terms of Coro::Semaphore,
81 for a nice speedup and vastly more correct behaviour. Also implement
82 a new method "sem" to get at the underlying semaphore object.
83 - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate
84 (in comparison) 20-40% speedup.
85 - used new SLF interface to reimplement Coro::Signal gaining
86 some unknown (because I was too lazy), but certain, speedup, and also
87 making signals reliable for the first time.
88 - used new SLF interface and other optimisations to speed up async_pool
89 by a factor of two. It also doesn't rely on perl's exception mechanism
90 to exit anymore. The overhead for terminating an async_pool, coro over
91 a normal async is now very small.
92 - sped up coroutine creation/destruction by 40%.
93 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years.
94 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
95 pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
96 - use new rouse functions to speed up and simplify Coro::BDB.
97 - make "prefer perl native functions" work with threaded perls.
98 - condense Coro::Debug ps output, hint at v and w flags.
99 - (libcoro) lots of minor cleanups and portability improvements.
100
1014.914 Wed Nov 19 12:54:18 CET 2008
102 - fix a disastrous bug in the readline optimisation
103 introduced in 4.801.
104
1054.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008
106 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
107 ("Attempt to unreference...").
108
1094.912 Thu Nov 13 18:31:23 CET 2008
110 - minor cleanups.
111 - use much larger stacks on linux and perl < 5.8.8.
112 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server did not unlink the socket
113 when destroyed.
114
1154.911 Tue Nov 11 04:26:17 CET 2008
116 - "port" to threaded perls.
117
1184.91 Mon Nov 10 05:36:38 CET 2008
119 - the ->throw exception object no longer leaks.
120 - creating a new cctx leaked a scopestack entry (memleak).
121 - new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field
122 (unknown impact).
123 - calling ->throw on a not-yet-started coroutine should now work
124 instead of being ignored.
125 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
126 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
127 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
128
1294.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008
130 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
131 - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
132 also speed it up considerably.
133 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
134 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
135 - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
136 - Coro::State::cctx_stacksize wasn't applied correctly.
137 - new function Coro::State::cctx_max_idle.
138 - the default max number of idle C contexts is now 4.
139 - (libcoro) try harder to get _setjmp/_longjmp.
140 - (libcoro) cleanup and extend the libcoro API to officially
141 allow the creation of empty source contexts.
142 - very experimental workaround for the totally broken netbsd platform.
143 - tried to hack around openbsd bugs.
144
1454.804 Wed Nov 5 16:36:00 CET 2008
146 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server would not create a non-blocking listening
147 socket, sometimes causing freezes.
148 - (libcoro) fix misaligned stack points for setjmp and assembly
149 methods, which can cause crashes on x86/x86_64 with a sufficiently
150 aggressive compiler.
151 - new function: Coro::Debug::new_tcp_server.
152 - move ->throw into the Coro class because it only works on coro objects.
153
1544.803 Mon Nov 3 17:16:12 CET 2008
155 - (libcoro) use a global asm statement to become independent of gcc
156 otpimisations for CORO_ASM (thanks to pippijn for the idea).
157 - try to workaround yet another broken bsd, this time dragonfly.
158
1594.802 Thu Oct 30 10:56:12 CET 2008
160 - support -fno-omit-frame-pointer on x86 with the assembly method.
161 - tune 01_unblock.t tests a bit.
162
1634.801 Wed Oct 22 18:33:37 CEST 2008
164 - improve readline speed for very long "lines".
165 - backport to 5.8.8.
166
1674.8 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
168 - new function Coro::AIO::aio_wait.
169 - Coro.:AIO and Coro::BDB now "use Coro::AnyEvent".
170 - greatly speed up and reduce memory usage of Coro::AIO requests.
171 - implement some other µ-optimisations.
172
1734.749 Mon Sep 29 14:40:12 CEST 2008
174 - port to slow and broken pseudo-threaded perls. (courtesy pippijn).
175
1764.748 Sat Sep 27 14:03:19 CEST 2008
177 - implement, but do not document, PerlIO::cede(granularity).
178 - Coro::Storable forgot to wrap Storable::pstore.
179 - work around the multitude of leaks and memory corruption
180 bugs in PerlIO::via by using our own C-level perliol. As a side
181 effect, Coro::Storable is now much, much, much faster.
182
1834.747 Tue Sep 23 01:59:41 CEST 2008
184 - fix a per-cv memleak (one empty array was leaked per
185 code reference).
186 - avoid a crash in coro->call|rss when the coroutine was already
187 destroyed (most noticably when using Coro::Debug::ps :)
188 - also protect *Storable::FILE.
189 - push up default storable granularity to 20ms.
190
1914.746 Sun Sep 21 03:22:20 CEST 2008
192 - be more insistent on locking Storable against reentrancy
193 in Coro::Storable.
194 - move swap_def?v and throw to Coro::State, as documented.
195
1964.745 Thu Jul 24 00:14:38 CEST 2008
197 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to
198 make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves
199 outdated software). Reported by John S.
200
2014.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008
202 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented.
203 - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current
204 implementations inside perl work fine for us.
205
2064.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008
207 - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could
208 result in busy-waiting for events, this has been fixed.
209 - reduce codesize and improve performance by using EV_DEFAULT_UC.
210
2114.742 Sat May 31 14:10:21 CEST 2008
212 - implement a workaround for (some) perl <5.8.8 versions.
213 - require EV 3.3+.
214
2154.741 Fri May 30 23:33:09 CEST 2008
216 - tell netbsd how utterly broken their imitation of an OS is
217 and refuse to build by default if pthreads are in use.
218 - switch to "s" method on all bsd's by default, as their ucontext
219 stuff seems just too broken.
220 - fix a bug in Coro::Select.
221
2224.74 Thu May 29 20:05:31 CEST 2008
223 - do not test Coro::LWP for lack of dependencies.
224 - do not test Coro::Select for lack of working perls.
225
2264.73 Thu May 29 2008
227 - fix a bug in Coro::EV which would cause it to block despite
228 there being runnable coroutines.
229 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress
230 warnings for some other modules.
231 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
232
2334.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008
234 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way
235 to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :(
236 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to
237 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...).
238 - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented
239 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage
240 of AnyEvent's workaround for that problem.
241 - use AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking in Coro::Handle to work around
242 a common perl implementation bug on windows.
243 - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around
244 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by
245 tcp sockets on windows. ugh.)
246
2474.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008
248 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()").
249 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util.
250 - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP.
251 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother
252 scheduling.
253
2544.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
255 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
256 - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
257 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
258 - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
259 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
260 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
261 use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
262
2634.6 Sat Apr 26 10:05:14 CEST 2008
264 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported
265 by the Coro module. It was a mistake to have it in the first place.
266 - (experimental) support for activestate perl 5.10 (method "w").
267 - (experimental) support for strawberry perl (method "a").
268 - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to,
269 actual impact unknown.
270
2714.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008
272 - make it compile again on 5.8.
273
2744.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008
275 - I did it twice! (see 4.49).
276
2774.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008
278 - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they
279 were compiled on 5.8 only.
280
2814.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
282 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
283 the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
284 (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
285 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
286
2874.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
288 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
289 and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
290 leading to crashes and worse.
291 - document force_cctx.
292
2934.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
294 - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
295 to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
296
2974.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
298 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
299 downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
300 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
301 (also add testcase).
302 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
303 apparently having loads of fun with that).
304 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
305
3064.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
307 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
308 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
309 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
310 - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
311 Andreas König.
312
3134.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
314 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
315 "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
316
3174.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
318 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
319 trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
320
3214.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
322 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
323 from longmess and also skips the innermost
324 stackframes, giving more useufl output.
325 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
326 at a <1% speed hit.
327 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
328 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
329
3304.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
331 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
332
3334.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
334 - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
335
3364.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
337 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
338 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
339 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
340
3414.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
342 - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
343
3444.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
345 - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
346 when the stack changed.
347 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
348 (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
349 if available.
350 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
351 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
352 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
353
3544.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
355 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
356 and Coro::Handle.
357
3584.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
359 - fix a spurious memory read.
360 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
361
3624.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
363 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
364 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
365 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
366 - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
367 does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
368 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
369 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
370 directly supported by Coro.
371 - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
372 stuff in Coro::Util.
373 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
374 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
375 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
376
3774.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
378 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
379 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
380 $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
381 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
382 instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
383 This also catches recursive invocations.
384 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
385
3864.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
387 - port to threaded perls.
388
3894.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
390 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
391 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
392 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
393 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
394 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
395 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
396 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
397 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
398 speeds up context switching a bit.
399 - further tune default stack sizes.
400 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
401 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
402 resulting in races between coroutines.
403 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
404 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
405 an unrelated coroutine.
406 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
407 more detail in Coro::State.
408 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
409 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
410 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
411 invalidating pointers.
412
4134.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
414 - added Coro::throw method.
415 - minor code cleanups.
416
4174.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
418 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
419 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
420 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
421 or use tracing).
422 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
423 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
424 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
7 425
84.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007 4264.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
9 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply 427 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
10 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust. 428 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
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