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1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
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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
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)? 4TODO: channel->maxsize(newsize)?
5TODO: http://www.microsoft.com/msj/archive/s2ce.aspx
6
7 - croak when a coro being cancelled tries to block (e.g. while
8 executing a guard block).
9 - implement a Coro::State->safe_cancel method that might fail, but
10 cancels in a "safer" way.
11 - implement Coro->cancel in XS for a 20% speed improvement, and to
12 be able to implement mutual cancellation.
13 - cancelling a coro while it itself is cancelling another coro is
14 now supported and working, instead of triggering an assertion.
15 - be a bit more crash-resistant when calling (buggy) on_destroy
16 callbacks (best effort).
17 - move on_destroy into the slf_frame, to allow extension slf
18 functions to have destructors.
19
205.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011
21 - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to
22 work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to
23 my attention by Max Maischein).
24 - fix some portability issues when Time::HiRes was used.
25
265.371 Mon Feb 21 14:36:08 CET 2011
27 - backport to windows process emulation code again.
28
295.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011
30 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
31 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
32 introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
33 - no longer use Time::HiRes if gettimeofday is available, which
34 saves quite a lot of memory.
35
365.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
37 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
38 Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
39 method call.
40 - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
41 - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
42 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
43 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
44
455.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
46 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
47 working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
48 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
49 with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
50
515.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
52 - port to the EV 4.0 API.
53 - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
54 out of the box.
55 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
56 so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
57 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
58
595.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
60 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
61 Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
62 Waldorf).
63 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
64
655.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
66 - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
67 (testcase by Marc Mims).
68 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
69 are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
70 functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
71 fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
72 with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
73 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
74 modules could have provided their own idle coro already
75 (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
76 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
77 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
78
795.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
80 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
81 together.
82 - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
83 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
84 the most common source of confusion.
85 - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
86 - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
87 older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
88 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
89
905.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
91 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
92 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
93 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
94 - new method $state->swap_sv.
95 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
96 after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
97 salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
98 were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
99 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
100 and maybe well enough for others to understand.
101 - use common::sense everywhere now.
102 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
103 - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
104
1055.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
106 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
107 when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
108 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
109 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
110 setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
111 - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
112
1135.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
114 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
115 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
116
1175.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
118 - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
119 used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
120 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
121 not on demand.
122 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
10 123
115.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009 1245.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
12 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop 125 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
13 when no threads had been readied between detecting 126 when no threads had been readied between detecting
14 the event loop and actually running it. 127 the event loop and actually running it.

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