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Revision 1.514 by root, Mon Jul 20 23:46:28 2009 UTC vs.
Revision 1.561 by root, Sat May 7 14:11:10 2011 UTC

1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
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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
6
7 - croak when a coro being cancelled tries to block (e.g. while
8 executing a guard block), instead of crashing or deadlocking.
9 - implement a Coro->safe_cancel method that might fail, but
10 cancels in a "safer" way if it succeeds.
11 - implement Coro->cancel in XS for a 20% speed improvement, and to
12 be able to implement mutual cancellation.
13 - speed up context switches by a percent or two by more efficiently
14 allocating context stack entries.
15 - cancelling a coro while it itself is cancelling another coro is
16 now supported and working, instead of triggering an assertion.
17 - be a bit more crash-resistant when calling (buggy) on_destroy
18 callbacks (best effort).
19 - move on_destroy into the slf_frame, to allow extension slf
20 functions to have destructors.
21
225.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011
23 - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to
24 work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to
25 my attention by Max Maischein).
26 - fix some portability issues when Time::HiRes was used.
27
285.371 Mon Feb 21 14:36:08 CET 2011
29 - backport to windows process emulation code again.
30
315.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011
32 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
33 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
34 introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
35 - no longer use Time::HiRes if gettimeofday is available, which
36 saves quite a lot of memory.
37
385.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
39 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
40 Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
41 method call.
42 - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
43 - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
44 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
45 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
46
475.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
48 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
49 working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
50 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
51 with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
52
535.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
54 - port to the EV 4.0 API.
55 - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
56 out of the box.
57 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
58 so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
59 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
60
615.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
62 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
63 Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
64 Waldorf).
65 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
66
675.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
68 - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
69 (testcase by Marc Mims).
70 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
71 are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
72 functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
73 fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
74 with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
75 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
76 modules could have provided their own idle coro already
77 (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
78 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
79 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
80
815.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
82 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
83 together.
84 - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
85 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
86 the most common source of confusion.
87 - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
88 - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
89 older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
90 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
91
925.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
93 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
94 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
95 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
96 - new method $state->swap_sv.
97 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
98 after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
99 salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
100 were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
101 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
102 and maybe well enough for others to understand.
103 - use common::sense everywhere now.
104 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
105 - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
106
1075.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
108 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
109 when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
110 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
111 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
112 setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
113 - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
114
1155.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
116 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
117 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
118
1195.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
120 - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
121 used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
122 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
123 not on demand.
124 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
10 125
115.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009 1265.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
12 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop 127 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
13 when no threads had been readied between detecting 128 when no threads had been readied between detecting
14 the event loop and actually running it. 129 the event loop and actually running it.

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