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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
7 - work around a bug in PerlIO (setting $SIG{__WARN__} to a PVCV).
8 - update ecb.h.
9
106.06 Mon Aug 8 23:59:48 CEST 2011
11 - cygwin unfortunately patches the stack at runtime, so we use the pthreads
12 backend, which is an order of magnitude slower. unfortunately, cygwins
13 pthread implementation isn't very complete either, so allocate the stack
14 twice just to be sure.
15 (note: cygwin also enables mymalloc, which is NOT THREADSAFE ON WINDOWS,
16 in its ithreaded perl - best recompile cygwin and use the 'w'indows
17 backend for much better performance. also disable ithreads for
18 even better performance...).
19
206.05 Thu Aug 4 21:36:36 CEST 2011
21 - blush, condvar values would not be propagated from send to recv anymore
22 (reported by Chip Salzenberg).
23 - use exponential increase for the readline buffer length in
24 Coro::Handle. also reduce initial allocation to 1020 from 4096 bytes.
25
266.04 Wed Aug 3 17:15:45 CEST 2011
27 - use even more efficient and more compatible condvars for
28 compatibility to AnyEvent 6.x :)
29 - more inconsequential ecb.h updates.
30
316.03 Wed Aug 3 11:41:30 CEST 2011
32 - change how Coro patches AnyEvent condvars for compatibility to
33 AnyEvent 6.x.
34 - update ecb.h, to no longer include <pthread.h> in case WinNT.h
35 hasn't been included.
36
376.02 Wed Jul 13 04:35:19 CEST 2011
38 - "improve portability to Gentoo" - gentoo manages to put perl variables
39 in memory areas that are farther than 2gb apart, which the jit couldn't
40 handle and barfed. now it's just a bit slower on gentoo and similar
41 systems.
42
436.01 Sun Jul 3 12:31:14 CEST 2011
44 - workarounds are good, but the test for whether pthreads are used
45 was not good. thisone should be better.
46 - check differently whether gcc generates cfi instructions itself.
47
486.0 Wed Jun 29 19:43:35 CEST 2011
49 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: unreferenced coro objects will now be
50 destroyed and cleaned up automatically (e.g. async { schedule }).
51 - implement a JIT compiler for part of the thread switch code,
52 which gives a 50% speed improvement on threaded perls, and
53 about 4% on non-thraeded perls (so threaded perls now finally
54 reach about half the speed of non-threaded perls).
55 - slightly modernise Coro::Intro, add section about rouse functions.
56 - avoid DEFSV and ERRSV, giving another 10% improvement
57 in thread switching.
58 - Coro::State->is_destroyed is now called is_zombie.
59 - implement a Coro->safe_cancel method that might fail, but
60 cancels in a "safer" way if it succeeds.
61 - add preliminary support for DEBUGGING perls.
62 - get rid of two hash-accesses when initialising a new Coro - this
63 speeds up coro creation by almost a factor of two.
7 - croak when a coro that is being cancelled tries to block 64 - croak when a coro that is being cancelled tries to block
8 (e.g. while executing a guard block), instead of crashing or 65 (e.g. while executing a guard block), instead of crashing or
9 deadlocking. 66 deadlocking.
10 - implement a Coro->safe_cancel method that might fail, but 67 - use a more robust and also faster method to identify Coro::State
11 cancels in a "safer" way if it succeeds. 68 objects - speeds up everything a bit.
12 - implement Coro->cancel in XS for a 20% speed improvement, and to 69 - implement Coro->cancel in XS for a 20% speed improvement, and to
13 be able to implement mutual cancellation. 70 be able to implement mutual cancellation.
14 - speed up context switches by a percent or two by more efficiently 71 - speed up context switches by a percent or two by more efficiently
15 allocating context stack entries. 72 allocating context stack entries.
73 - implement Coro->join and Coro->on_destroy in XS for a speedup and
74 a reduction in memory use.
16 - cancelling a coro while it itself is cancelling another coro is 75 - cancelling a coro while it itself is cancelling another coro is
17 now supported and working, instead of triggering an assertion. 76 now supported and working, instead of triggering an assertion.
18 - be a bit more crash-resistant when calling (buggy) on_destroy 77 - be a bit more crash-resistant when calling (buggy) on_destroy
19 callbacks (best effort). 78 callbacks (best effort).
20 - move on_destroy into the slf_frame, to allow extension slf 79 - move on_destroy into the slf_frame, to allow extension slf
21 functions to have destructors. 80 functions to have destructors.
81 - get rid if coro refcounting - simply crash in other interpreter
82 threads by nulling the pointers on clone.
83 - simplify warn/die hook handling when loading Coro - the convoluted
84 logic seems to be no longer neccessary.
85 - use libecb instead of our own home-grown gcc hacks.
86 - document alternatives to Coro::LWP. Please use them :)
87 - work around another mindless idiotic NEEDLESS bug in openbsd/mirbsds
88 sigaltstack. Really. wine suffers from it, erlang suffers from it,
89 and it's known since at least 2006.
22 90
235.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011 915.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011
24 - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to 92 - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to
25 work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to 93 work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to
26 my attention by Max Maischein). 94 my attention by Max Maischein).

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