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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
10 6
7TODO:mg_virtual check
8TODO:detah on refcnt
9TODO:slf_xx_yy=>slf_yy_xx
10 - croak when a coro that is being cancelled tries to block
11 (e.g. while executing a guard block), instead of crashing or
12 deadlocking.
13 - use a more robust and also faster method to identify Coro::State
14 objects - speeds up everything a bit.
15 - implement a Coro->safe_cancel method that might fail, but
16 cancels in a "safer" way if it succeeds.
17 - implement Coro->cancel in XS for a 20% speed improvement, and to
18 be able to implement mutual cancellation.
19 - speed up context switches by a percent or two by more efficiently
20 allocating context stack entries.
21 - implement Coro->join and Coro->on_destroy in XS for a speedup and
22 a reduction in memory use.
23 - cancelling a coro while it itself is cancelling another coro is
24 now supported and working, instead of triggering an assertion.
25 - be a bit more crash-resistant when calling (buggy) on_destroy
26 callbacks (best effort).
27 - move on_destroy into the slf_frame, to allow extension slf
28 functions to have destructors.
29 - get rid if coro refcounting - simply crash in other interpreter
30 threads by nulling the pointers on clone.
31
325.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011
33 - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to
34 work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to
35 my attention by Max Maischein).
36 - fix some portability issues when Time::HiRes was used.
37
385.371 Mon Feb 21 14:36:08 CET 2011
39 - backport to windows process emulation code again.
40
415.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011
42 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
43 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
44 introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
45 - no longer use Time::HiRes if gettimeofday is available, which
46 saves quite a lot of memory.
47
485.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
49 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
50 Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
51 method call.
52 - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
53 - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
54 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
55 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
56
575.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
58 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
59 working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
60 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
61 with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
62
635.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
64 - port to the EV 4.0 API.
65 - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
66 out of the box.
67 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
68 so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
69 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
70
715.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
72 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
73 Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
74 Waldorf).
75 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
76
775.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
78 - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
79 (testcase by Marc Mims).
80 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
81 are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
82 functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
83 fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
84 with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
85 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
86 modules could have provided their own idle coro already
87 (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
88 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
89 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
90
915.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
92 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
93 together.
94 - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
95 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
96 the most common source of confusion.
97 - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
98 - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
99 older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
100 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
101
1025.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
103 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
104 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
105 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
106 - new method $state->swap_sv.
107 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
108 after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
109 salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
110 were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
111 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
112 and maybe well enough for others to understand.
113 - use common::sense everywhere now.
114 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
115 - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
116
1175.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
118 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
119 when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
120 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
121 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
122 setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
123 - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
124
1255.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
126 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
127 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
128
1295.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
130 - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
131 used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
132 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
133 not on demand.
134 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
135
1365.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
11 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop 137 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
12 when no threads had been readied between detecting 138 when no threads had been readied between detecting
13 the event loop and actually running it. 139 the event loop and actually running it.
14 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage 140 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
15 of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations. 141 of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
142 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
143 (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
16 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported 144 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
17 and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO). 145 and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
18 - clarified libcoro license and copyright. 146 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
19 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!! 147 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
20 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother, 148 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,

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