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Revision 1.457 by root, Sat Nov 22 02:09:54 2008 UTC vs.
Revision 1.534 by root, Sun Apr 11 19:23:18 2010 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: unready_all
5 actor model (which is cool in a lot of important aspects (failures!), 5TODO: myhttpd header parsing
6 but very lacking in others (higher level ipc)). 6TODO: channel->maxsize(newsize)?
7 7
8TODO: http://www.microsoft.com/msj/archive/s2ce.aspx
9
10 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
11 are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
12 functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
13 fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
14 with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
15 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
16 modules could have provided their own idle coro already
17 (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
18 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
19 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
20
215.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
22 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
23 together.
24 - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
25 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
26 the most common source of confusion.
27 - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
28 - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
29 older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
30 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
31
325.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
33 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
34 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
35 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
36 - new method $state->swap_sv.
37 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
38 after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
39 salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
40 were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
41 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
42 and maybe well enough for others to understand.
43 - use common::sense everywhere now.
44 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
45 - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
46
475.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
48 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
49 when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
50 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
51 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
52 setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
53 - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
54
555.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
56 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
57 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
58
595.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
60 - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
61 used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
62 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
63 not on demand.
64 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
65
665.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
67 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
68 when no threads had been readied between detecting
69 the event loop and actually running it.
70 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
71 of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
72 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
73 (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
74 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
75 and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
76 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
77 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
78 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
79 for hardcode select overriding.
80
815.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
82 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
83 Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
84 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
85
865.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
87 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
88 AnyEvent::Socket instead.
89 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
90 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
91 to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
92 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
93 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
94 reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
95 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
96 (Coro::State::enable_times).
97
985.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
99 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
100 as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
101 idle_upto).
102 - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
103 - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
104 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
105 avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
106 had already been freed.
107 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
108 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
109 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
110 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
111 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
112 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
113 Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
114 (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
115 - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
116 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
117 - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
118 (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
119
1205.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
121 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
122 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
123 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
124 should support a prepare callback.
125
1265.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
127 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
128 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
129 the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
130
1315.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
132 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
133 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
134 spurious warnings.
135 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
136 - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
137 - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
138 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
139 - deprecate Coro::guard.
140 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
141 testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
142 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
143 - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
144 - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
145 when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
146 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
147 to avoid needless segfaults.
148
1495.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
150 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
151 compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
152 openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
153 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
154 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
155 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
156 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
157 - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
158 destruction.
159 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
160 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
161 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
162 - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
163 pthreads fare better?).
164 - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
165
1665.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
167 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
168 working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
169 it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
170
1715.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
172 - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
8 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API. 173 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
9 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors 174 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
10 and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends. 175 and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
176 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
177 LWP data transfers.
178 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
179 correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
180 objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
11 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default. 181 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
12 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably 182 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably
13 doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub). 183 doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
184 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
185 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
186 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
187 do not have this method (and don't need it either).
188 - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
189 callbacks.
190 - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
191 others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
192 through the idle threads now.
193 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
194 - eg/event was pretty broken.
14 - better 5.8.6 compatibility. 195 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
15 196
165.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008 1975.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
17 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience 198 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
18 stability issues. 199 stability issues.

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