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Revision 1.562 by root, Tue May 10 19:55:48 2011 UTC vs.
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3TODO: should explore PerlIO::coroaio (perl leaks like hell). 3TODO: should explore PerlIO::coroaio (perl leaks like hell).
4TODO: channel->maxsize(newsize)? 4TODO: channel->maxsize(newsize)?
5TODO: http://www.microsoft.com/msj/archive/s2ce.aspx 5TODO: http://www.microsoft.com/msj/archive/s2ce.aspx
6 6
7TODO: tutorial
8TODO: in_eval, PL_tained
9 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: unreferenced coro objects will now be
10 destroyed and cleaned up automatically (e.g. async { schedule }).
11 - implement a JIT compiler for part of the thread switch code,
12 which gives a 50% speed improvement on threaded perls, and
13 about 4% on non-thraeded perls (so threaded perls now finally
14 reach about half the speed of non-threaded perls).
15 - avoid DEFSV and ERRSV, giving another 10% improvement
16 in thread switching.
17 - Coro::State->is_destroyed is now called is_zombie.
18 - implement a Coro->safe_cancel method that might fail, but
19 cancels in a "safer" way if it succeeds.
20 - get rid of two hash-accesses when initialising a new Coro - this
21 speeds up coro creation by almost a factor of two.
7 - croak when a coro that is being cancelled tries to block 22 - croak when a coro that is being cancelled tries to block
8 (e.g. while executing a guard block), instead of crashing or 23 (e.g. while executing a guard block), instead of crashing or
9 deadlocking. 24 deadlocking.
10 - implement a Coro->safe_cancel method that might fail, but 25 - use a more robust and also faster method to identify Coro::State
11 cancels in a "safer" way if it succeeds. 26 objects - speeds up everything a bit.
12 - implement Coro->cancel in XS for a 20% speed improvement, and to 27 - implement Coro->cancel in XS for a 20% speed improvement, and to
13 be able to implement mutual cancellation. 28 be able to implement mutual cancellation.
14 - speed up context switches by a percent or two by more efficiently 29 - speed up context switches by a percent or two by more efficiently
15 allocating context stack entries. 30 allocating context stack entries.
31 - implement Coro->join and Coro->on_destroy in XS for a speedup and
32 a reduction in memory use.
16 - cancelling a coro while it itself is cancelling another coro is 33 - cancelling a coro while it itself is cancelling another coro is
17 now supported and working, instead of triggering an assertion. 34 now supported and working, instead of triggering an assertion.
18 - be a bit more crash-resistant when calling (buggy) on_destroy 35 - be a bit more crash-resistant when calling (buggy) on_destroy
19 callbacks (best effort). 36 callbacks (best effort).
20 - move on_destroy into the slf_frame, to allow extension slf 37 - move on_destroy into the slf_frame, to allow extension slf
21 functions to have destructors. 38 functions to have destructors.
39 - get rid if coro refcounting - simply crash in other interpreter
40 threads by nulling the pointers on clone.
41 - simplify warn/die hook handling when loading Coro - the convoluted
42 logic seems to be no longer neccessary.
43 - use libecb instead of our own home-grown gcc hacks.
44 - document alternatives to Coro::LWP. Please use them :)
45 - work around another mindless idiotic NEEDLESS bug in openbsd/mirbsds
46 sigaltstack. Really. wine suffers from it, erlang suffers from it,
47 and its' known since at least 2006.
22 48
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24 - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to 50 - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to
25 work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to 51 work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to
26 my attention by Max Maischein). 52 my attention by Max Maischein).

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