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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: unready_all
5TODO: myhttpd header parsing
6TODO: channel->maxsize(newsize)? 4TODO: channel->maxsize(newsize)?
7TODO: http://www.microsoft.com/msj/archive/s2ce.aspx 5TODO: __GCC_HAVE_DWARF2_CFI_ASM
6TODO: swap_sv, maybe add scope_swap_sv, andallow to unswap by repeat?
7TODO: swap_sv not undone in pool
8
9 - croak when cancel is called without a thread context.
10
116.37 Tue Mar 4 13:27:33 CET 2014
12 - *sigh*, removed leftover debugging code from debugging a
13 perl bug, of all things.
14
156.36 Tue Mar 4 07:11:59 CET 2014
16 - semaphores would not clear the destroy hook when interrupted
17 by ->throw, causing segfaults or worse.
18 - ->throw on a thread waiting for a semaphore did not acquire
19 the semaphore, but also didn't wake up other waiters,
20 possibly causing a deadlock.
21 - "FATAL: $Coro::IDLE blocked itself" will now use Carp::confess
22 to report a full stacktrace, which should help find out
23 where the actual call is.
24 - "atomically" destroy data in slf_destroy, because it is
25 the right thing to do, just in case.
26 - disable ecb.h libm dependency, to compile on ancient systems
27 or under adverse conditions.
28
296.33 Mon Nov 18 11:26:27 CET 2013
30 - do not crash when freeing padlists with holes (in 5.18).
31 - tentative SVt_BIND 5.19 port/fix.
32
336.32 Tue Nov 5 15:35:35 CET 2013
34 - use a new algorithm to derive padlists for perl 5.18. The old
35 one could lead to 0-pointer accesses inside perl (reported
36 by Darin McBride).
37
386.31 Thu May 9 07:39:48 CEST 2013
39 - Coro::AIO requests would crash if the thread was ready'd
40 while the request was ongoing.
41
426.29 Wed May 8 02:55:18 CEST 2013
43 - when an on_destroy handler destructs the coro currently being
44 destructed a perl scalar could be accessed after being freed,
45 likely causing a crash.
46
476.28 Wed Mar 6 06:58:02 CET 2013
48 - clean remnants of existing __DIE__ and __WARN__ handlers so
49 they lose their magic and will not cause segfaults later
50 (testcase by Andrey Sagulin).
51 - improved Coro::State documentation a bit.
52 - Coro::Debug::command now flushes the output.
53 - add hack detection code for x32 abi, because the braindead slugs
54 who designed that made it look exactly like x86_64 without
55 providing proper compile time symbols to test for it. as a result,
56 this detection cannot work reliably.
57 - valgrind stack registering was broken.
58 - do not rely on Time::HiRes anymore in Coro::Debug.
59
606.23 Fri Dec 7 23:36:37 CET 2012
61 - use experimental fiber implementation on native windows
62 perls.
63 - use sizeof (void *) as multiplication factor for stack sizes,
64 to accomodate the totally braindamaged microsoft 64 bit "os".
65 - changed verifier host from win2k-ap510-32 to win7-sp516-32/64.
66 activeperl 5.16 crashes when PerlIO_define_layer is called due
67 to some bug in the perl dll, strawberry perl at least passes
68 the testsuite.
69 - implement Coro::Handle->peeraddr/host/port, for slightly
70 improved compatibility with LWP.
71 - implement 5.17 compatibility by almost blindly applying a
72 good-looking patch by Father Chrysostomos.
73 - move stack management functions into libcoro 3.
74 - libcoro version 3 "released".
75 - support magic values as timed_io_once args.
76 - recommend AnyEvent 7+ or EV 4+, also require EV
77 version 4 or newer for Coro::EV.
78
796.10 Tue Oct 9 01:14:27 CEST 2012
80 - updated ecb.h, it had a typo that caused it to not compile on many
81 big endian systems (reported by many people).
82 - disable memory fences in ecb.h to improve portability.
83
846.09 Sat Oct 6 23:25:02 CEST 2012
85 - Coro::EV I/O watchers were not interruptible by exceptions
86 (Coro::State::throw) (testcase by sten).
87 - ->throw now puts threads into the ready queue, as this seems to
88 be expected by existing code, and code that doesn't cope with spurious
89 wakeups needs fixing anyway.
90 - use fd -1 in mmap.
91 - cast I32 to int in error message printf.
92 - warn about broken so-called "hardened" kernels.
93
946.08 Fri Apr 13 12:05:47 CEST 2012
95 - be more aggressive about exiting like perl does - formerly,
96 exiting from the non-main thread would not execute END blocks.
97
986.07 Fri Nov 11 21:21:48 CET 2011
99 - work around a bug in PerlIO (setting $SIG{__WARN__} to a PVCV).
100 - update ecb.h.
101
1026.06 Mon Aug 8 23:59:48 CEST 2011
103 - cygwin unfortunately patches the stack at runtime, so we use the pthreads
104 backend, which is an order of magnitude slower. unfortunately, cygwins
105 pthread implementation isn't very complete either, so allocate the stack
106 twice just to be sure.
107 (note: cygwin also enables mymalloc, which is NOT THREADSAFE ON WINDOWS,
108 in its ithreaded perl - best recompile cygwin and use the 'w'indows
109 backend for much better performance. also disable ithreads for
110 even better performance...).
111
1126.05 Thu Aug 4 21:36:36 CEST 2011
113 - blush, condvar values would not be propagated from send to recv anymore
114 (reported by Chip Salzenberg).
115 - use exponential increase for the readline buffer length in
116 Coro::Handle. also reduce initial allocation to 1020 from 4096 bytes.
117
1186.04 Wed Aug 3 17:15:45 CEST 2011
119 - use even more efficient and more compatible condvars for
120 compatibility to AnyEvent 6.x :)
121 - more inconsequential ecb.h updates.
122
1236.03 Wed Aug 3 11:41:30 CEST 2011
124 - change how Coro patches AnyEvent condvars for compatibility to
125 AnyEvent 6.x.
126 - update ecb.h, to no longer include <pthread.h> in case WinNT.h
127 hasn't been included.
128
1296.02 Wed Jul 13 04:35:19 CEST 2011
130 - "improve portability to Gentoo" - gentoo manages to put perl variables
131 in memory areas that are farther than 2gb apart, which the jit couldn't
132 handle and barfed. now it's just a bit slower on gentoo and similar
133 systems.
134
1356.01 Sun Jul 3 12:31:14 CEST 2011
136 - workarounds are good, but the test for whether pthreads are used
137 was not good. thisone should be better.
138 - check differently whether gcc generates cfi instructions itself.
139
1406.0 Wed Jun 29 19:43:35 CEST 2011
141 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: unreferenced coro objects will now be
142 destroyed and cleaned up automatically (e.g. async { schedule }).
143 - implement a JIT compiler for part of the thread switch code,
144 which gives a 50% speed improvement on threaded perls, and
145 about 4% on non-thraeded perls (so threaded perls now finally
146 reach about half the speed of non-threaded perls).
147 - slightly modernise Coro::Intro, add section about rouse functions.
148 - avoid DEFSV and ERRSV, giving another 10% improvement
149 in thread switching.
150 - Coro::State->is_destroyed is now called is_zombie.
151 - implement a Coro->safe_cancel method that might fail, but
152 cancels in a "safer" way if it succeeds.
153 - add preliminary support for DEBUGGING perls.
154 - get rid of two hash-accesses when initialising a new Coro - this
155 speeds up coro creation by almost a factor of two.
156 - croak when a coro that is being cancelled tries to block
157 (e.g. while executing a guard block), instead of crashing or
158 deadlocking.
159 - use a more robust and also faster method to identify Coro::State
160 objects - speeds up everything a bit.
161 - implement Coro->cancel in XS for a 20% speed improvement, and to
162 be able to implement mutual cancellation.
163 - speed up context switches by a percent or two by more efficiently
164 allocating context stack entries.
165 - implement Coro->join and Coro->on_destroy in XS for a speedup and
166 a reduction in memory use.
167 - cancelling a coro while it itself is cancelling another coro is
168 now supported and working, instead of triggering an assertion.
169 - be a bit more crash-resistant when calling (buggy) on_destroy
170 callbacks (best effort).
171 - move on_destroy into the slf_frame, to allow extension slf
172 functions to have destructors.
173 - get rid if coro refcounting - simply crash in other interpreter
174 threads by nulling the pointers on clone.
175 - simplify warn/die hook handling when loading Coro - the convoluted
176 logic seems to be no longer neccessary.
177 - use libecb instead of our own home-grown gcc hacks.
178 - document alternatives to Coro::LWP. Please use them :)
179 - work around another mindless idiotic NEEDLESS bug in openbsd/mirbsds
180 sigaltstack. Really. wine suffers from it, erlang suffers from it,
181 and it's known since at least 2006.
182
1835.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011
184 - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to
185 work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to
186 my attention by Max Maischein).
187 - fix some portability issues when Time::HiRes was used.
188
1895.371 Mon Feb 21 14:36:08 CET 2011
190 - backport to windows process emulation code again.
191
1925.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011
193 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
194 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
195 introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
196 - no longer use Time::HiRes if gettimeofday is available, which
197 saves quite a lot of memory.
198
1995.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
200 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
201 Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
202 method call.
203 - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
204 - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
205 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
206 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
207
2085.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
209 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
210 working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
211 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
212 with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
8 213
95.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010 2145.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
10 - port to the EV 4.0 API. 215 - port to the EV 4.0 API.
11 - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work 216 - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
12 out of the box. 217 out of the box.
299 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects. 504 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
300 - clean up cctx creation code a bit. 505 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
301 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix). 506 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
302 507
3034.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008 5084.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008
304 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there). 509 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
305 - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend, 510 - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
306 also speed it up considerably. 511 also speed it up considerably.
307 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed. 512 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
308 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile. 513 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
309 - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly. 514 - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
371 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to 576 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to
372 make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves 577 make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves
373 outdated software). Reported by John S. 578 outdated software). Reported by John S.
374 579
3754.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008 5804.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008
376 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented. 581 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented.
377 - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current 582 - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current
378 implementations inside perl work fine for us. 583 implementations inside perl work fine for us.
379 584
3804.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008 5854.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008
381 - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could 586 - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could
403 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress 608 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress
404 warnings for some other modules. 609 warnings for some other modules.
405 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK. 610 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
406 611
4074.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008 6124.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008
408 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way 613 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way
409 to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :( 614 to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :(
410 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to 615 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to
411 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...). 616 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...).
412 - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented 617 - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented
413 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage 618 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage
417 - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around 622 - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around
418 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by 623 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by
419 tcp sockets on windows. ugh.) 624 tcp sockets on windows. ugh.)
420 625
4214.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008 6264.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008
422 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()"). 627 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()").
423 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util. 628 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util.
424 - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP. 629 - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP.
425 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother 630 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother
426 scheduling. 631 scheduling.
427 632
4284.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008 6334.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
429 - completely reworked the Coro manpage. 634 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
430 - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration. 635 - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
431 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug. 636 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
432 - document find_coro in Coro::Debug. 637 - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
433 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx. 638 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
434 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection, 639 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
435 use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB. 640 use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
559 764
5604.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007 7654.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
561 - port to threaded perls. 766 - port to threaded perls.
562 767
5634.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007 7684.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
564 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now 769 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
565 be local to each coro (see Coro::State). 770 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
566 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself 771 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
567 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned. 772 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
568 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested). 773 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
569 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(. 774 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
641 but stateful semantics. 846 but stateful semantics.
642 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David 847 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
643 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly). 848 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
644 849
6453.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007 8503.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
646 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again. 851 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
647 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw. 852 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
648 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit 853 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
649 (EXPERIMENTAL). 854 (EXPERIMENTAL).
650 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init. 855 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
651 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to 856 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to

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