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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
76.04
8 - use even more effciient and more compatible condvars for
9 compatibility to AnyEvent 6.x :)
10 - more inconsequential ecb.h updates.
11
126.03 Wed Aug 3 11:41:30 CEST 2011
13 - change how Coro patches AnyEvent condvars for compatibility to
14 AnyEvent 6.x.
15 - update ecb.h, to no longer include <pthread.h> in case WinNT.h
16 hasn't been included.
17
186.02 Wed Jul 13 04:35:19 CEST 2011
19 - "improve portability to Gentoo" - gentoo manages to put perl variables
20 in memory areas that are farther than 2gb apart, which the jit couldn't
21 handle and barfed. now it's just a bit slower on gentoo and similar
22 systems.
23
246.01 Sun Jul 3 12:31:14 CEST 2011
25 - workarounds are good, but the test for whether pthreads are used
26 was not good. thisone should be better.
27 - check differently whether gcc generates cfi instructions itself.
28
296.0 Wed Jun 29 19:43:35 CEST 2011
30 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: unreferenced coro objects will now be
31 destroyed and cleaned up automatically (e.g. async { schedule }).
32 - implement a JIT compiler for part of the thread switch code,
33 which gives a 50% speed improvement on threaded perls, and
34 about 4% on non-thraeded perls (so threaded perls now finally
35 reach about half the speed of non-threaded perls).
36 - slightly modernise Coro::Intro, add section about rouse functions.
37 - avoid DEFSV and ERRSV, giving another 10% improvement
38 in thread switching.
39 - Coro::State->is_destroyed is now called is_zombie.
40 - implement a Coro->safe_cancel method that might fail, but
41 cancels in a "safer" way if it succeeds.
42 - add preliminary support for DEBUGGING perls.
43 - get rid of two hash-accesses when initialising a new Coro - this
44 speeds up coro creation by almost a factor of two.
7 - croak when a coro that is being cancelled tries to block 45 - croak when a coro that is being cancelled tries to block
8 (e.g. while executing a guard block), instead of crashing or 46 (e.g. while executing a guard block), instead of crashing or
9 deadlocking. 47 deadlocking.
10 - implement a Coro->safe_cancel method that might fail, but 48 - use a more robust and also faster method to identify Coro::State
11 cancels in a "safer" way if it succeeds. 49 objects - speeds up everything a bit.
12 - implement Coro->cancel in XS for a 20% speed improvement, and to 50 - implement Coro->cancel in XS for a 20% speed improvement, and to
13 be able to implement mutual cancellation. 51 be able to implement mutual cancellation.
14 - speed up context switches by a percent or two by more efficiently 52 - speed up context switches by a percent or two by more efficiently
15 allocating context stack entries. 53 allocating context stack entries.
54 - implement Coro->join and Coro->on_destroy in XS for a speedup and
55 a reduction in memory use.
16 - cancelling a coro while it itself is cancelling another coro is 56 - cancelling a coro while it itself is cancelling another coro is
17 now supported and working, instead of triggering an assertion. 57 now supported and working, instead of triggering an assertion.
18 - be a bit more crash-resistant when calling (buggy) on_destroy 58 - be a bit more crash-resistant when calling (buggy) on_destroy
19 callbacks (best effort). 59 callbacks (best effort).
20 - move on_destroy into the slf_frame, to allow extension slf 60 - move on_destroy into the slf_frame, to allow extension slf
21 functions to have destructors. 61 functions to have destructors.
62 - get rid if coro refcounting - simply crash in other interpreter
63 threads by nulling the pointers on clone.
64 - simplify warn/die hook handling when loading Coro - the convoluted
65 logic seems to be no longer neccessary.
66 - use libecb instead of our own home-grown gcc hacks.
67 - document alternatives to Coro::LWP. Please use them :)
68 - work around another mindless idiotic NEEDLESS bug in openbsd/mirbsds
69 sigaltstack. Really. wine suffers from it, erlang suffers from it,
70 and it's known since at least 2006.
22 71
235.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011 725.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011
24 - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to 73 - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to
25 work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to 74 work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to
26 my attention by Max Maischein). 75 my attention by Max Maischein).

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