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Revision 1.509 by root, Wed Jul 8 02:16:49 2009 UTC vs.
Revision 1.565 by root, Fri May 13 19:39:26 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
5 actor model (which is cool in a lot of important aspects (failures!),
6 but very lacking in others (higher level ipc)).
7TODO: unready_all
8TODO: myhttpd header parsing
9TODO: channel->maxsize(newsize)? 4TODO: channel->maxsize(newsize)?
5TODO: http://www.microsoft.com/msj/archive/s2ce.aspx
10 6
7TODO: tutorial
8 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: unreferenced coro objects will now be
9 destroyed and cleaned up automatically (e.g. async { schedule }).
10 - Coro::State->is_destroyed is now called is_zombie.
11 - implement a Coro->safe_cancel method that might fail, but
12 cancels in a "safer" way if it succeeds.
13 - croak when a coro that is being cancelled tries to block
14 (e.g. while executing a guard block), instead of crashing or
15 deadlocking.
16 - use a more robust and also faster method to identify Coro::State
17 objects - speeds up everything a bit.
18 - implement Coro->cancel in XS for a 20% speed improvement, and to
19 be able to implement mutual cancellation.
20 - speed up context switches by a percent or two by more efficiently
21 allocating context stack entries.
22 - implement Coro->join and Coro->on_destroy in XS for a speedup and
23 a reduction in memory use.
24 - cancelling a coro while it itself is cancelling another coro is
25 now supported and working, instead of triggering an assertion.
26 - be a bit more crash-resistant when calling (buggy) on_destroy
27 callbacks (best effort).
28 - move on_destroy into the slf_frame, to allow extension slf
29 functions to have destructors.
30 - get rid if coro refcounting - simply crash in other interpreter
31 threads by nulling the pointers on clone.
32
335.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011
34 - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to
35 work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to
36 my attention by Max Maischein).
37 - fix some portability issues when Time::HiRes was used.
38
395.371 Mon Feb 21 14:36:08 CET 2011
40 - backport to windows process emulation code again.
41
425.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011
43 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
44 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
45 introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
46 - no longer use Time::HiRes if gettimeofday is available, which
47 saves quite a lot of memory.
48
495.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
50 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
51 Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
52 method call.
53 - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
54 - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
55 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
56 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
57
585.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
59 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
60 working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
61 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
62 with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
63
645.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
65 - port to the EV 4.0 API.
66 - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
67 out of the box.
68 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
69 so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
70 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
71
725.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
73 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
74 Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
75 Waldorf).
76 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
77
785.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
79 - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
80 (testcase by Marc Mims).
81 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
82 are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
83 functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
84 fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
85 with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
86 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
87 modules could have provided their own idle coro already
88 (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
89 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
90 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
91
925.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
93 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
94 together.
95 - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
96 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
97 the most common source of confusion.
98 - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
99 - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
100 older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
101 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
102
1035.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
104 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
105 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
106 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
107 - new method $state->swap_sv.
108 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
109 after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
110 salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
111 were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
112 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
113 and maybe well enough for others to understand.
114 - use common::sense everywhere now.
115 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
116 - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
117
1185.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
119 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
120 when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
121 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
122 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
123 setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
124 - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
125
1265.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
127 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
128 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
129
1305.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
131 - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
132 used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
133 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
134 not on demand.
135 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
136
1375.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
138 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
139 when no threads had been readied between detecting
140 the event loop and actually running it.
11 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage 141 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
12 of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations. 142 of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
143 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
144 (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
145 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
146 and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
147 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
148 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
149 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
150 for hardcode select overriding.
13 151
145.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009 1525.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
15 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by 153 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
16 Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO). 154 Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
17 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker. 155 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.

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