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Revision 1.524 by root, Thu Oct 1 23:16:27 2009 UTC vs.
Revision 1.568 by root, Fri Jun 10 12:27:02 2011 UTC

1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2 2
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 - use libecb instead of our own home-grown gcc hacks.
38
395.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011
40 - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to
41 work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to
42 my attention by Max Maischein).
43 - fix some portability issues when Time::HiRes was used.
44
455.371 Mon Feb 21 14:36:08 CET 2011
46 - backport to windows process emulation code again.
47
485.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011
49 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
50 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
51 introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
52 - no longer use Time::HiRes if gettimeofday is available, which
53 saves quite a lot of memory.
54
555.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
56 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
57 Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
58 method call.
59 - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
60 - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
61 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
62 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
63
645.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
65 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
66 working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
67 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
68 with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
69
705.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
71 - port to the EV 4.0 API.
72 - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
73 out of the box.
74 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
75 so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
76 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
77
785.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
79 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
80 Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
81 Waldorf).
82 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
83
845.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
85 - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
86 (testcase by Marc Mims).
87 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
88 are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
89 functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
90 fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
91 with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
92 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
93 modules could have provided their own idle coro already
94 (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
95 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
96 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
97
985.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
99 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
100 together.
101 - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
102 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
103 the most common source of confusion.
104 - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
105 - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
106 older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
107 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
108
1095.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
11 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped. 110 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
111 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
12 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle. 112 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
113 - new method $state->swap_sv.
13 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage, 114 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
14 after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip 115 after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
15 salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments 116 salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
16 were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first 117 were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
17 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand, 118 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
18 and maybe well enough for others to understand. 119 and maybe well enough for others to understand.
19 - use common::sense everywhere now. 120 - use common::sense everywhere now.
121 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
122 - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
20 123
215.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009 1245.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
22 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes 125 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
23 when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug. 126 when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
24 - speed up Coro::async considerably. 127 - speed up Coro::async considerably.

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