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Revision 1.511 by root, Sat Jul 11 14:24:12 2009 UTC vs.
Revision 1.562 by root, Tue May 10 19:55:48 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
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
10 6
7 - croak when a coro that is being cancelled tries to block
8 (e.g. while executing a guard block), instead of crashing or
9 deadlocking.
10 - implement a Coro->safe_cancel method that might fail, but
11 cancels in a "safer" way if it succeeds.
12 - implement Coro->cancel in XS for a 20% speed improvement, and to
13 be able to implement mutual cancellation.
14 - speed up context switches by a percent or two by more efficiently
15 allocating context stack entries.
16 - cancelling a coro while it itself is cancelling another coro is
17 now supported and working, instead of triggering an assertion.
18 - be a bit more crash-resistant when calling (buggy) on_destroy
19 callbacks (best effort).
20 - move on_destroy into the slf_frame, to allow extension slf
21 functions to have destructors.
22
235.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011
24 - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to
25 work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to
26 my attention by Max Maischein).
27 - fix some portability issues when Time::HiRes was used.
28
295.371 Mon Feb 21 14:36:08 CET 2011
30 - backport to windows process emulation code again.
31
325.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011
33 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
34 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
35 introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
36 - no longer use Time::HiRes if gettimeofday is available, which
37 saves quite a lot of memory.
38
395.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
40 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
41 Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
42 method call.
43 - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
44 - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
45 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
46 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
47
485.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
49 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
50 working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
51 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
52 with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
53
545.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
55 - port to the EV 4.0 API.
56 - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
57 out of the box.
58 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
59 so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
60 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
61
625.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
63 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
64 Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
65 Waldorf).
66 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
67
685.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
69 - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
70 (testcase by Marc Mims).
71 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
72 are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
73 functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
74 fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
75 with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
76 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
77 modules could have provided their own idle coro already
78 (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
79 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
80 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
81
825.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
83 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
84 together.
85 - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
86 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
87 the most common source of confusion.
88 - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
89 - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
90 older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
91 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
92
935.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
94 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
95 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
96 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
97 - new method $state->swap_sv.
98 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
99 after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
100 salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
101 were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
102 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
103 and maybe well enough for others to understand.
104 - use common::sense everywhere now.
105 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
106 - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
107
1085.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
109 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
110 when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
111 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
112 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
113 setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
114 - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
115
1165.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
117 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
118 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
119
1205.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
121 - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
122 used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
123 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
124 not on demand.
125 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
126
1275.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
128 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
129 when no threads had been readied between detecting
130 the event loop and actually running it.
11 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage 131 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
12 of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations. 132 of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
133 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
134 (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
135 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
136 and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
13 - clarified libcoro license and copyright. 137 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
14 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!! 138 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
139 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
140 for hardcode select overriding.
15 141
165.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009 1425.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
17 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by 143 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
18 Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO). 144 Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
19 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker. 145 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.

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