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1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
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3TODO: check wether stack-sharing is still effective 3TODO: should explore PerlIO::coroaio (perl leaks like hell).
4TODO: more effective stack sharing by having one "default stack" for "simple" coroutines? 4TODO: maybe implement a default message channel, very much like Erlang's
5TODO: verify exception frame changes and force stack copies? 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)?
6 10
115.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
12 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
13 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
14
155.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
16 - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
17 used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
18 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
19 not on demand.
20 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
21
225.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
23 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
24 when no threads had been readied between detecting
25 the event loop and actually running it.
26 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
27 of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
28 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
29 (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
30 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
31 and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
32 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
33 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
34 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
35 for hardcode select overriding.
36
375.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
38 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
39 Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
40 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
41
425.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
43 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
44 AnyEvent::Socket instead.
45 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
46 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
47 to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
48 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
49 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
50 reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
51 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
52 (Coro::State::enable_times).
53
545.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
55 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
56 as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
57 idle_upto).
58 - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
59 - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
60 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
61 avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
62 had already been freed.
63 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
64 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
65 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
66 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
67 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
68 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
69 Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
70 (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
71 - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
72 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
73 - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
74 (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
75
765.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
77 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
78 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
79 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
80 should support a prepare callback.
81
825.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
83 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
84 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
85 the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
86
875.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
88 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
89 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
90 spurious warnings.
91 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
92 - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
93 - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
94 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
95 - deprecate Coro::guard.
96 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
97 testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
98 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
99 - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
100 - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
101 when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
102 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
103 to avoid needless segfaults.
104
1055.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
106 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
107 compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
108 openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
109 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
110 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
111 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
112 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
113 - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
114 destruction.
115 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
116 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
117 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
118 - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
119 pthreads fare better?).
120 - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
121
1225.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
123 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
124 working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
125 it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
126
1275.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
128 - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
129 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
130 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
131 and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
132 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
133 LWP data transfers.
134 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
135 correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
136 objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
137 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
138 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably
139 doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
140 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
141 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
142 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
143 do not have this method (and don't need it either).
144 - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
145 callbacks.
146 - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
147 others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
148 through the idle threads now.
149 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
150 - eg/event was pretty broken.
151 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
152
1535.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
154 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
155 stability issues.
156 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
157 - removed timed_* functions - they were not being used anyways
158 and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
159 and were annoying to support anyways :)
160 - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem method instead.
161 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
162 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
163 ("Attempt to unreference...").
164 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
165 was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
166 would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where
167 it was available but waiters were still blocked).
168 - calling throw on a coroutine that is waiting for a semaphore will
169 no longer make it acquire the semaphore (and thus leak a count).
170 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported
171 anymore.
172 - new functions Coro::rouse_cb and Coro::rouse_wait for easier
173 conversion of callback-style to blocking-style.
174 - new methods $coro->schedule_to and ->cede_to, to specifically
175 schedule or cede to a specific coroutine.
176 - new function Coro::Semaphore::wait.
177 - use named constants in Coro::Channel (Richard Hundt).
178 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede,
179 transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but
180 more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of
181 entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from
182 those functions and atcually create new ones.
183 - take advantage of __builtin_frame_address on gcc.
184 - expose THX in coroapi (not sure whether this was a wise decision,
185 as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways).
186 - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes
187 it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS.
188 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a
189 factor of two.
190 - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a
191 factor of three.
192 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of
193 four and reduce its memory usage considerably.
194 - implement Coro::SemaphoreSet purely in terms of Coro::Semaphore,
195 for a nice speedup and vastly more correct behaviour. Also implement
196 a new method "sem" to get at the underlying semaphore object.
197 - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate
198 (in comparison) 20-40% speedup.
199 - used new SLF interface to reimplement Coro::Signal gaining
200 some unknown (because I was too lazy), but certain, speedup, and also
201 making signals reliable for the first time.
202 - used new SLF interface and other optimisations to speed up async_pool
203 by a factor of two. It also doesn't rely on perl's exception mechanism
204 to exit anymore. The overhead for terminating an async_pool, coro over
205 a normal async is now very small.
206 - sped up coroutine creation/destruction by 40%.
207 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years.
208 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
209 pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
210 - use new rouse functions to speed up and simplify Coro::BDB.
211 - make "prefer perl native functions" work with threaded perls.
212 - condense Coro::Debug ps output, hint at v and w flags.
213 - (libcoro) lots of minor cleanups and portability improvements.
214
2154.914 Wed Nov 19 12:54:18 CET 2008
216 - fix a disastrous bug in the readline optimisation
217 introduced in 4.801.
218
2194.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008
220 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
221 ("Attempt to unreference...").
222
2234.912 Thu Nov 13 18:31:23 CET 2008
224 - minor cleanups.
225 - use much larger stacks on linux and perl < 5.8.8.
226 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server did not unlink the socket
227 when destroyed.
228
2294.911 Tue Nov 11 04:26:17 CET 2008
230 - "port" to threaded perls.
231
2324.91 Mon Nov 10 05:36:38 CET 2008
233 - the ->throw exception object no longer leaks.
234 - creating a new cctx leaked a scopestack entry (memleak).
235 - new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field
236 (unknown impact).
237 - calling ->throw on a not-yet-started coroutine should now work
238 instead of being ignored.
239 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
240 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
241 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
242
2434.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008
244 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
245 - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
246 also speed it up considerably.
247 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
248 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
249 - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
250 - Coro::State::cctx_stacksize wasn't applied correctly.
251 - new function Coro::State::cctx_max_idle.
252 - the default max number of idle C contexts is now 4.
253 - (libcoro) try harder to get _setjmp/_longjmp.
254 - (libcoro) cleanup and extend the libcoro API to officially
255 allow the creation of empty source contexts.
256 - very experimental workaround for the totally broken netbsd platform.
257 - tried to hack around openbsd bugs.
258
2594.804 Wed Nov 5 16:36:00 CET 2008
260 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server would not create a non-blocking listening
261 socket, sometimes causing freezes.
262 - (libcoro) fix misaligned stack points for setjmp and assembly
263 methods, which can cause crashes on x86/x86_64 with a sufficiently
264 aggressive compiler.
265 - new function: Coro::Debug::new_tcp_server.
266 - move ->throw into the Coro class because it only works on coro objects.
267
2684.803 Mon Nov 3 17:16:12 CET 2008
269 - (libcoro) use a global asm statement to become independent of gcc
270 otpimisations for CORO_ASM (thanks to pippijn for the idea).
271 - try to workaround yet another broken bsd, this time dragonfly.
272
2734.802 Thu Oct 30 10:56:12 CET 2008
274 - support -fno-omit-frame-pointer on x86 with the assembly method.
275 - tune 01_unblock.t tests a bit.
276
2774.801 Wed Oct 22 18:33:37 CEST 2008
278 - improve readline speed for very long "lines".
279 - backport to 5.8.8.
280
2814.8 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
282 - new function Coro::AIO::aio_wait.
283 - Coro.:AIO and Coro::BDB now "use Coro::AnyEvent".
284 - greatly speed up and reduce memory usage of Coro::AIO requests.
285 - implement some other µ-optimisations.
286
2874.749 Mon Sep 29 14:40:12 CEST 2008
288 - port to slow and broken pseudo-threaded perls. (courtesy pippijn).
289
2904.748 Sat Sep 27 14:03:19 CEST 2008
291 - implement, but do not document, PerlIO::cede(granularity).
292 - Coro::Storable forgot to wrap Storable::pstore.
293 - work around the multitude of leaks and memory corruption
294 bugs in PerlIO::via by using our own C-level perliol. As a side
295 effect, Coro::Storable is now much, much, much faster.
296
2974.747 Tue Sep 23 01:59:41 CEST 2008
298 - fix a per-cv memleak (one empty array was leaked per
299 code reference).
300 - avoid a crash in coro->call|rss when the coroutine was already
301 destroyed (most noticably when using Coro::Debug::ps :)
302 - also protect *Storable::FILE.
303 - push up default storable granularity to 20ms.
304
3054.746 Sun Sep 21 03:22:20 CEST 2008
306 - be more insistent on locking Storable against reentrancy
307 in Coro::Storable.
308 - move swap_def?v and throw to Coro::State, as documented.
309
3104.745 Thu Jul 24 00:14:38 CEST 2008
311 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to
312 make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves
313 outdated software). Reported by John S.
314
3154.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008
316 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented.
317 - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current
318 implementations inside perl work fine for us.
319
3204.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008
321 - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could
322 result in busy-waiting for events, this has been fixed.
323 - reduce codesize and improve performance by using EV_DEFAULT_UC.
324
3254.742 Sat May 31 14:10:21 CEST 2008
326 - implement a workaround for (some) perl <5.8.8 versions.
327 - require EV 3.3+.
328
3294.741 Fri May 30 23:33:09 CEST 2008
330 - tell netbsd how utterly broken their imitation of an OS is
331 and refuse to build by default if pthreads are in use.
332 - switch to "s" method on all bsd's by default, as their ucontext
333 stuff seems just too broken.
334 - fix a bug in Coro::Select.
335
3364.74 Thu May 29 20:05:31 CEST 2008
337 - do not test Coro::LWP for lack of dependencies.
338 - do not test Coro::Select for lack of working perls.
339
3404.73 Thu May 29 2008
341 - fix a bug in Coro::EV which would cause it to block despite
342 there being runnable coroutines.
343 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress
344 warnings for some other modules.
345 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
346
3474.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008
348 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way
349 to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :(
350 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to
351 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...).
352 - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented
353 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage
354 of AnyEvent's workaround for that problem.
355 - use AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking in Coro::Handle to work around
356 a common perl implementation bug on windows.
357 - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around
358 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by
359 tcp sockets on windows. ugh.)
360
3614.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008
362 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()").
363 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util.
364 - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP.
365 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother
366 scheduling.
367
3684.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
369 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
370 - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
371 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
372 - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
373 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
374 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
375 use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
376
3774.6 Sat Apr 26 10:05:14 CEST 2008
378 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported
379 by the Coro module. It was a mistake to have it in the first place.
380 - (experimental) support for activestate perl 5.10 (method "w").
381 - (experimental) support for strawberry perl (method "a").
382 - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to,
383 actual impact unknown.
384
3854.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008
386 - make it compile again on 5.8.
387
3884.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008
389 - I did it twice! (see 4.49).
390
3914.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008
392 - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they
393 were compiled on 5.8 only.
394
3954.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
396 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
397 the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
398 (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
399 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
400
4014.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
402 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
403 and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
404 leading to crashes and worse.
405 - document force_cctx.
406
4074.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
408 - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
409 to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
410
4114.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
412 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
413 downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
414 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
415 (also add testcase).
416 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
417 apparently having loads of fun with that).
418 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
419
4204.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
421 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
422 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
423 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
424 - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
425 Andreas König.
426
4274.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
428 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
429 "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
430
4314.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
432 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
433 trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
434
4354.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
436 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
437 from longmess and also skips the innermost
438 stackframes, giving more useufl output.
439 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
440 at a <1% speed hit.
441 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
442 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
443
4444.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
445 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
446
4474.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
448 - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
449
4504.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
451 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
452 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
453 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
454
4554.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
456 - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
457
4584.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
459 - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
460 when the stack changed.
461 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
462 (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
463 if available.
464 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
465 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
466 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
467
4684.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
469 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
470 and Coro::Handle.
471
4724.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
473 - fix a spurious memory read.
474 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
475
4764.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
477 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
478 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
479 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
480 - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
481 does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
482 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
483 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
484 directly supported by Coro.
485 - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
486 stuff in Coro::Util.
487 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
488 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
489 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
490
4914.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
492 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
493 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
494 $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
495 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
496 instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
497 This also catches recursive invocations.
498 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
499
5004.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
501 - port to threaded perls.
502
5034.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
504 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
505 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
506 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
507 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
508 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
509 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
510 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
511 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
512 speeds up context switching a bit.
513 - further tune default stack sizes.
514 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
515 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
516 resulting in races between coroutines.
517 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
518 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
519 an unrelated coroutine.
520 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
521 more detail in Coro::State.
522 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
523 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
524 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
525 invalidating pointers.
526
5274.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
528 - added Coro::throw method.
529 - minor code cleanups.
530
5314.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
532 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
533 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
534 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
535 or use tracing).
536 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
537 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
538 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
539
5404.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
541 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
542 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
543
5444.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
545 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
546 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
547 debugging, tracing and much more.
548 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
549 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
550 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
551 flags.
552 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
553 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
554 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
555 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
556 - added Coro::killall.
557 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
558 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
559 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
560 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
561 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
562 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
563 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
564 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
565 - many minor tweaks.
566
5673.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
568 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
569
5703.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
571 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
572 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
573
5743.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
575 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
576 pst's sometimes.
577 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
578 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
579 be threadsafe...).
580 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
581 but stateful semantics.
582 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
583 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
584
5853.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
586 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
587 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
588 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
589 (EXPERIMENTAL).
590 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
591 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
592 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
593 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
594
5953.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
596 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
597 it by default.
598 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
599 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
600 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
601 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
602 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
603 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
604 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
605 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
606 performance.
607
6083.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
609 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
610 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
611
6123.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
613 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
614 them without asking.
615
6163.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
617 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
618 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
619 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
620 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
621 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
622 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
623
6243.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
625 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
626 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
627 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
628 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
629 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
630 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
631 obsolete platforms.
632
6333.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
634 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
635 but was rather flaky in practise.
636 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
637 it was reused.
638 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
639 in cede_notself.
640
6413.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
642 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
643 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
644 documented and - hopefully - improved.
645 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
646 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
647 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
648 that could errronously trigger.
649 - fix various large and small memleaks.
650 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
651 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
652 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
653 - added Coro::guard function.
654 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
655 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
656 and 128k coros with async_pool).
657 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
658
6593.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
660 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
661 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
662 - simplify configuration for users.
663 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
664 their coro replacements.
665
6663.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
667 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
668 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
669 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
670 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
671 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
672 - save/restore tainted status.
673 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
674
6753.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
676 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
677 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
678 - give a better error message on deadlock.
679 - document Coro::nready.
680 - enhanced testsuite.
681
6823.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
683 - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
684
6853.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
686 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
687 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
7 - reimplement a new stack sharing algorithm. 688 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
689 pool (size currently hardcoded).
8 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic). 690 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
691 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
9 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but 692 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
10 Event watchers were used directly. 693 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
694 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
695 check for changed watchers.
696 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
697 per event.
11 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now. 698 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
699 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
700 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
701 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
702 some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
12 - minor incompatibility: subclassing is supported directly now 703 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
13 without going through a _coro_state member. 704 directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
14 - process swicthing is much faster now. 705 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
15 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup. 706 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
16 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining. 707 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
17 - possibly better support for threads.
18 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead. 708 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
19 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler. 709 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
710 - updated to newest libcoro.
711 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
712 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
713 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
714 and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
715 if somebody asks for it :)
716 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
717 spuriously without the event having happened.
20 718
212.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006 7192.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
22 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket 720 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
23 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/. 721 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
24 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to 722 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to

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