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Revision 1.465 by root, Tue Nov 25 20:49:15 2008 UTC vs.
Revision 1.558 by root, Fri May 6 18:01:13 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: 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)). 6
7 - croak when a coro being cancelled tries to block (e.g. while executing
8 a guard block).
9 - implement Coro->cancel in XS for a 20% speed improvement, and to
10 be able to implement mutual cancellation.
11 - cancelling a coro while it itself is cancelling another coro is
12 now supported and working, instead of triggering an assertion.
13 - be a bit more crash-resistant when calling (buggy) on_destroy
14 callbacks (best effort).
15
165.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011
17 - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to
18 work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to
19 my attention by Max Maischein).
20 - fix some portability issues when Time::HiRes was used.
21
225.371 Mon Feb 21 14:36:08 CET 2011
23 - backport to windows process emulation code again.
24
255.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011
26 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
27 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
28 introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
29 - no longer use Time::HiRes if gettimeofday is available, which
30 saves quite a lot of memory.
31
325.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
33 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
34 Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
35 method call.
36 - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
37 - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
38 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
39 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
40
415.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
42 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
43 working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
44 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
45 with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
46
475.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
48 - port to the EV 4.0 API.
49 - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
50 out of the box.
51 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
52 so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
53 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
54
555.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
56 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
57 Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
58 Waldorf).
59 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
60
615.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
62 - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
63 (testcase by Marc Mims).
64 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
65 are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
66 functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
67 fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
68 with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
69 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
70 modules could have provided their own idle coro already
71 (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
72 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
73 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
74
755.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
76 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
77 together.
78 - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
79 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
80 the most common source of confusion.
81 - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
82 - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
83 older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
84 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
85
865.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
87 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
88 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
89 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
90 - new method $state->swap_sv.
91 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
92 after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
93 salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
94 were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
95 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
96 and maybe well enough for others to understand.
97 - use common::sense everywhere now.
98 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
99 - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
100
1015.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
102 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
103 when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
104 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
105 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
106 setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
107 - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
108
1095.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
110 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
111 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
112
1135.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
114 - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
115 used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
116 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
117 not on demand.
118 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
119
1205.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
121 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
122 when no threads had been readied between detecting
123 the event loop and actually running it.
124 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
125 of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
126 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
127 (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
128 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
129 and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
130 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
131 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
132 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
133 for hardcode select overriding.
134
1355.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
136 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
137 Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
138 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
139
1405.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
141 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
142 AnyEvent::Socket instead.
143 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
144 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
145 to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
146 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
147 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
148 reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
149 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
150 (Coro::State::enable_times).
151
1525.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
153 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
154 as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
155 idle_upto).
156 - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
157 - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
158 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
159 avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
160 had already been freed.
161 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
162 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
163 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
164 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
165 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
166 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
167 Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
168 (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
169 - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
170 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
171 - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
172 (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
173
1745.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
175 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
176 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
177 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
178 should support a prepare callback.
179
1805.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
181 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
182 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
183 the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
184
1855.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
186 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
187 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
188 spurious warnings.
189 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
190 - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
191 - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
192 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
193 - deprecate Coro::guard.
194 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
195 testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
196 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
197 - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
198 - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
199 when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
200 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
201 to avoid needless segfaults.
202
2035.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
204 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
205 compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
206 openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
207 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
208 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
209 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
210 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
211 - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
212 destruction.
213 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
214 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
215 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
216 - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
217 pthreads fare better?).
218 - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
7 219
85.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008 2205.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
9 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly 221 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
10 working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than 222 working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
11 it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :( 223 it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(

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