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Revision 1.482 by root, Mon Dec 15 16:22:34 2008 UTC vs.
Revision 1.555 by root, Fri Apr 29 15:43:26 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)). 6TODO: cancel calling another coro that cancels ourselves => crash (CF_DELAYCANCEL?) -> canceltest
7 7
85.13 8 - implement Coro->cancel in XS for a 20% speed improvement, and to
9 be able to implement mutual cancellation.
10 - be a bit more crash-resistant when calling (buggy) on_destroy
11 callbacks (best effort).
12
135.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011
14 - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to
15 work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to
16 my attention by Max Maischein).
17 - fix some portability issues when Time::HiRes was used.
18
195.371 Mon Feb 21 14:36:08 CET 2011
20 - backport to windows process emulation code again.
21
225.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011
23 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
24 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
25 introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
26 - no longer use Time::HiRes if gettimeofday is available, which
27 saves quite a lot of memory.
28
295.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
30 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
31 Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
32 method call.
33 - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
34 - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
35 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
36 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
37
385.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
39 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
40 working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
41 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
42 with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
43
445.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
45 - port to the EV 4.0 API.
46 - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
47 out of the box.
48 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
49 so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
50 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
51
525.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
53 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
54 Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
55 Waldorf).
56 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
57
585.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
59 - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
60 (testcase by Marc Mims).
61 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
62 are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
63 functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
64 fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
65 with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
66 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
67 modules could have provided their own idle coro already
68 (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
69 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
70 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
71
725.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
73 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
74 together.
75 - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
76 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
77 the most common source of confusion.
78 - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
79 - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
80 older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
81 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
82
835.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
84 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
85 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
86 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
87 - new method $state->swap_sv.
88 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
89 after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
90 salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
91 were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
92 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
93 and maybe well enough for others to understand.
94 - use common::sense everywhere now.
95 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
96 - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
97
985.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
99 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
100 when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
101 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
102 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
103 setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
104 - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
105
1065.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
107 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
108 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
109
1105.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
111 - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
112 used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
113 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
114 not on demand.
115 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
116
1175.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
118 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
119 when no threads had been readied between detecting
120 the event loop and actually running it.
121 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
122 of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
123 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
124 (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
125 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
126 and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
127 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
128 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
129 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
130 for hardcode select overriding.
131
1325.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
133 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
134 Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
135 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
136
1375.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
138 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
139 AnyEvent::Socket instead.
140 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
141 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
142 to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
143 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
144 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
145 reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
146 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
147 (Coro::State::enable_times).
148
1495.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
150 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
151 as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
152 idle_upto).
153 - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
154 - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
155 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
156 avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
157 had already been freed.
158 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
159 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
160 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
161 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
162 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
163 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
164 Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
165 (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
166 - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
167 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
168 - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
169 (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
170
1715.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
172 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
173 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
174 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
175 should support a prepare callback.
176
1775.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
178 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
179 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
180 the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
181
1825.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
9 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave). 183 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
10 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid 184 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
11 spurious warnings. 185 spurious warnings.
12 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet. 186 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
13 - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly. 187 - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
18 testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test. 192 testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
19 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable. 193 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
20 - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval. 194 - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
21 - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one 195 - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
22 when temporarily switching to another coroutine. 196 when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
197 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
198 to avoid needless segfaults.
23 199
245.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008 2005.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
25 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug 201 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
26 compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing 202 compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
27 openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :). 203 openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).

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