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Revision 1.557 by root, Sat Apr 30 05:17:42 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
8TODO: dynamic wind, test and document 7 - implement Coro->cancel in XS for a 20% speed improvement, and to
95.13 8 be able to implement mutual cancellation.
9 - cancelling a coro while it itself is cancelling another coro is
10 now supported and working, instead of triggering an assertion.
11 - be a bit more crash-resistant when calling (buggy) on_destroy
12 callbacks (best effort).
13
145.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011
15 - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to
16 work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to
17 my attention by Max Maischein).
18 - fix some portability issues when Time::HiRes was used.
19
205.371 Mon Feb 21 14:36:08 CET 2011
21 - backport to windows process emulation code again.
22
235.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011
24 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
25 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
26 introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
27 - no longer use Time::HiRes if gettimeofday is available, which
28 saves quite a lot of memory.
29
305.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
31 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
32 Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
33 method call.
34 - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
35 - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
36 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
37 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
38
395.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
40 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
41 working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
42 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
43 with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
44
455.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
46 - port to the EV 4.0 API.
47 - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
48 out of the box.
49 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
50 so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
51 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
52
535.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
54 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
55 Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
56 Waldorf).
57 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
58
595.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
60 - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
61 (testcase by Marc Mims).
62 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
63 are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
64 functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
65 fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
66 with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
67 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
68 modules could have provided their own idle coro already
69 (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
70 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
71 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
72
735.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
74 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
75 together.
76 - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
77 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
78 the most common source of confusion.
79 - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
80 - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
81 older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
82 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
83
845.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
85 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
86 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
87 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
88 - new method $state->swap_sv.
89 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
90 after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
91 salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
92 were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
93 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
94 and maybe well enough for others to understand.
95 - use common::sense everywhere now.
96 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
97 - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
98
995.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
100 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
101 when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
102 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
103 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
104 setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
105 - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
106
1075.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
108 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
109 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
110
1115.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
112 - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
113 used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
114 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
115 not on demand.
116 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
117
1185.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
119 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
120 when no threads had been readied between detecting
121 the event loop and actually running it.
122 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
123 of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
124 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
125 (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
126 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
127 and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
128 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
129 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
130 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
131 for hardcode select overriding.
132
1335.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
134 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
135 Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
136 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
137
1385.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
139 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
140 AnyEvent::Socket instead.
141 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
142 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
143 to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
144 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
145 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
146 reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
147 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
148 (Coro::State::enable_times).
149
1505.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
151 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
152 as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
153 idle_upto).
154 - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
155 - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
156 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
157 avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
158 had already been freed.
159 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
160 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
161 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
162 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
163 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
164 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
165 Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
166 (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
167 - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
168 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
169 - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
170 (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
171
1725.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
173 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
174 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
175 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
176 should support a prepare callback.
177
1785.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
179 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
180 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
181 the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
182
1835.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
184 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
10 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid 185 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
11 spurious warnings. 186 spurious warnings.
12 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet. 187 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
13 - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly. 188 - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
14 - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods. 189 - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
18 testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test. 193 testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
19 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable. 194 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
20 - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval. 195 - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
21 - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one 196 - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
22 when temporarily switching to another coroutine. 197 when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
198 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
199 to avoid needless segfaults.
23 200
245.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008 2015.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
25 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug 202 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
26 compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing 203 compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
27 openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :). 204 openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).

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