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Revision 1.478 by root, Sat Dec 13 22:08:12 2008 UTC vs.
Revision 1.551 by root, Sat Feb 19 06:51:22 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 4TODO: channel->maxsize(newsize)?
5 actor model (which is cool in a lot of important aspects (failures!), 5TODO: http://www.microsoft.com/msj/archive/s2ce.aspx
6 but very lacking in others (higher level ipc)).
7 6
8new -> ready 75.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011
9new -> canceled 8 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
10ready -> running 9 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
11ready -> canceled 10 introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
12running -> ready 11 - no longer use Time::HiRes if gettimeofday is available, which
13running -> blocked 12 saves quite a lot of memory.
14running -> canceled
15blocked -> ready
16blocked -> canceled
17 13
185.13 145.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
15 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
16 Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
17 method call.
18 - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
19 - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
20 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
21 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
22
235.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
24 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
25 working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
26 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
27 with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
28
295.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
30 - port to the EV 4.0 API.
31 - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
32 out of the box.
33 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
34 so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
35 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
36
375.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
38 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
39 Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
40 Waldorf).
41 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
42
435.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
44 - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
45 (testcase by Marc Mims).
46 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
47 are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
48 functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
49 fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
50 with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
51 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
52 modules could have provided their own idle coro already
53 (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
54 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
55 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
56
575.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
58 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
59 together.
60 - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
61 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
62 the most common source of confusion.
63 - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
64 - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
65 older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
66 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
67
685.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
69 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
70 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
71 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
72 - new method $state->swap_sv.
73 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
74 after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
75 salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
76 were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
77 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
78 and maybe well enough for others to understand.
79 - use common::sense everywhere now.
80 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
81 - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
82
835.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
84 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
85 when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
86 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
87 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
88 setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
89 - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
90
915.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
92 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
93 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
94
955.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
96 - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
97 used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
98 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
99 not on demand.
100 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
101
1025.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
103 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
104 when no threads had been readied between detecting
105 the event loop and actually running it.
106 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
107 of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
108 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
109 (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
110 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
111 and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
112 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
113 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
114 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
115 for hardcode select overriding.
116
1175.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
118 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
119 Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
120 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
121
1225.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
123 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
124 AnyEvent::Socket instead.
125 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
126 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
127 to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
128 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
129 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
130 reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
131 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
132 (Coro::State::enable_times).
133
1345.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
135 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
136 as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
137 idle_upto).
138 - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
139 - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
140 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
141 avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
142 had already been freed.
143 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
144 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
145 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
146 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
147 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
148 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
149 Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
150 (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
151 - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
152 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
153 - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
154 (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
155
1565.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
157 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
158 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
159 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
160 should support a prepare callback.
161
1625.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
163 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
164 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
165 the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
166
1675.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
168 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
19 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid 169 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
20 spurious warnings. 170 spurious warnings.
21 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet. 171 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
22 - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly. 172 - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
23 - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods. 173 - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
24 - take advantage of the new Guard module. 174 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
25 - deprecate Coro::guard. 175 - deprecate Coro::guard.
176 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
177 testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
178 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
179 - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
180 - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
181 when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
182 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
183 to avoid needless segfaults.
26 184
275.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008 1855.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
28 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug 186 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
29 compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing 187 compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
30 openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :). 188 openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).

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