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Revision 1.573 by root, Wed Jun 29 16:08:31 2011 UTC vs.
Revision 1.579 by root, Tue Jul 26 11:47:08 2011 UTC

2 2
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
7TODO: tutorial 7 - update ecb.h, to no longer include <pthread.h> in case WinNT.h
8 hasn't been included.
9
106.02 Wed Jul 13 04:35:19 CEST 2011
11 - "improve portability to Gentoo" - gentoo manages to put perl variables
12 in memory areas that are farther than 2gb apart, which the jit couldn't
13 handle and barfed. now it's just a bit slower on gentoo and similar
14 systems.
15
166.01 Sun Jul 3 12:31:14 CEST 2011
17 - workarounds are good, but the test for whether pthreads are used
18 was not good. thisone should be better.
19 - check differently whether gcc generates cfi instructions itself.
20
216.0 Wed Jun 29 19:43:35 CEST 2011
8 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: unreferenced coro objects will now be 22 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: unreferenced coro objects will now be
9 destroyed and cleaned up automatically (e.g. async { schedule }). 23 destroyed and cleaned up automatically (e.g. async { schedule }).
10 - implement a JIT compiler for part of the thread switch code, 24 - implement a JIT compiler for part of the thread switch code,
11 which gives a 50% speed improvement on threaded perls, and 25 which gives a 50% speed improvement on threaded perls, and
12 about 4% on non-thraeded perls (so threaded perls now finally 26 about 4% on non-thraeded perls (so threaded perls now finally
13 reach about half the speed of non-threaded perls). 27 reach about half the speed of non-threaded perls).
28 - slightly modernise Coro::Intro, add section about rouse functions.
14 - avoid DEFSV and ERRSV, giving another 10% improvement 29 - avoid DEFSV and ERRSV, giving another 10% improvement
15 in thread switching. 30 in thread switching.
16 - Coro::State->is_destroyed is now called is_zombie. 31 - Coro::State->is_destroyed is now called is_zombie.
17 - implement a Coro->safe_cancel method that might fail, but 32 - implement a Coro->safe_cancel method that might fail, but
18 cancels in a "safer" way if it succeeds. 33 cancels in a "safer" way if it succeeds.

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