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Revision 1.512 by root, Thu Jul 16 02:19:17 2009 UTC vs.
Revision 1.567 by root, Sun May 22 20:13:33 2011 UTC

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: 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 - Coro::State->is_destroyed is now called is_zombie.
12 - implement a Coro->safe_cancel method that might fail, but
13 cancels in a "safer" way if it succeeds.
14 - get rid of two hash-accesses when initialising a new Coro - this
15 speeds up coro creation by almost a factor of two.
16 - croak when a coro that is being cancelled tries to block
17 (e.g. while executing a guard block), instead of crashing or
18 deadlocking.
19 - use a more robust and also faster method to identify Coro::State
20 objects - speeds up everything a bit.
21 - implement Coro->cancel in XS for a 20% speed improvement, and to
22 be able to implement mutual cancellation.
23 - speed up context switches by a percent or two by more efficiently
24 allocating context stack entries.
25 - implement Coro->join and Coro->on_destroy in XS for a speedup and
26 a reduction in memory use.
27 - cancelling a coro while it itself is cancelling another coro is
28 now supported and working, instead of triggering an assertion.
29 - be a bit more crash-resistant when calling (buggy) on_destroy
30 callbacks (best effort).
31 - move on_destroy into the slf_frame, to allow extension slf
32 functions to have destructors.
33 - get rid if coro refcounting - simply crash in other interpreter
34 threads by nulling the pointers on clone.
35 - simplify warn/die hook handling when loading Coro - the convoluted
36 logic seems to be no longer neccessary.
37
385.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011
39 - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to
40 work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to
41 my attention by Max Maischein).
42 - fix some portability issues when Time::HiRes was used.
43
445.371 Mon Feb 21 14:36:08 CET 2011
45 - backport to windows process emulation code again.
46
475.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011
48 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
49 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
50 introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
51 - no longer use Time::HiRes if gettimeofday is available, which
52 saves quite a lot of memory.
53
545.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
55 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
56 Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
57 method call.
58 - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
59 - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
60 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
61 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
62
635.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
64 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
65 working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
66 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
67 with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
68
695.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
70 - port to the EV 4.0 API.
71 - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
72 out of the box.
73 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
74 so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
75 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
76
775.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
78 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
79 Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
80 Waldorf).
81 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
82
835.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
84 - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
85 (testcase by Marc Mims).
86 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
87 are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
88 functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
89 fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
90 with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
91 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
92 modules could have provided their own idle coro already
93 (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
94 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
95 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
96
975.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
98 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
99 together.
100 - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
101 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
102 the most common source of confusion.
103 - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
104 - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
105 older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
106 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
107
1085.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
109 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
110 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
111 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
112 - new method $state->swap_sv.
113 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
114 after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
115 salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
116 were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
117 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
118 and maybe well enough for others to understand.
119 - use common::sense everywhere now.
120 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
121 - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
122
1235.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
124 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
125 when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
126 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
127 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
128 setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
129 - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
130
1315.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
132 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
133 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
134
1355.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
136 - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
137 used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
138 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
139 not on demand.
140 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
141
1425.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
11 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop 143 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
12 when no threads had been readied between detecting 144 when no threads had been readied between detecting
13 the event loop and actually running it. 145 the event loop and actually running it.
14 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage 146 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
15 of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations. 147 of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
148 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
149 (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
150 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
151 and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
16 - clarified libcoro license and copyright. 152 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
17 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!! 153 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
18 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother, 154 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
19 for hardcode select overriding. 155 for hardcode select overriding.
20 156

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