| 1 | Revision history for Perl extension Coro. |
1 | Revision history for Perl extension Coro. |
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| 3 | TODO: should explore PerlIO::coroaio (perl leaks like hell). |
3 | TODO: should explore PerlIO::coroaio (perl leaks like hell). |
| 4 | TODO: channel->maxsize(newsize)? |
4 | TODO: channel->maxsize(newsize)? |
| 5 | TODO: http://www.microsoft.com/msj/archive/s2ce.aspx |
5 | TODO: http://www.microsoft.com/msj/archive/s2ce.aspx |
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7 | 6.02 Wed Jul 13 04:35:19 CEST 2011 |
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8 | - "improve portability to Gentoo" - gentoo manages to put perl variables |
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9 | in memory areas that are farther than 2gb apart, which the jit couldn't |
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10 | handle and barfed. now it's just a bit slower on gentoo and similar |
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11 | systems. |
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13 | 6.01 Sun Jul 3 12:31:14 CEST 2011 |
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14 | - workarounds are good, but the test for whether pthreads are used |
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15 | was not good. thisone should be better. |
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16 | - check differently whether gcc generates cfi instructions itself. |
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18 | 6.0 Wed Jun 29 19:43:35 CEST 2011 |
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19 | - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: unreferenced coro objects will now be |
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20 | destroyed and cleaned up automatically (e.g. async { schedule }). |
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21 | - implement a JIT compiler for part of the thread switch code, |
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22 | which gives a 50% speed improvement on threaded perls, and |
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23 | about 4% on non-thraeded perls (so threaded perls now finally |
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24 | reach about half the speed of non-threaded perls). |
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25 | - slightly modernise Coro::Intro, add section about rouse functions. |
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26 | - avoid DEFSV and ERRSV, giving another 10% improvement |
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27 | in thread switching. |
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28 | - Coro::State->is_destroyed is now called is_zombie. |
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29 | - implement a Coro->safe_cancel method that might fail, but |
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30 | cancels in a "safer" way if it succeeds. |
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31 | - add preliminary support for DEBUGGING perls. |
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32 | - get rid of two hash-accesses when initialising a new Coro - this |
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33 | speeds up coro creation by almost a factor of two. |
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34 | - croak when a coro that is being cancelled tries to block |
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35 | (e.g. while executing a guard block), instead of crashing or |
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36 | deadlocking. |
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37 | - use a more robust and also faster method to identify Coro::State |
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38 | objects - speeds up everything a bit. |
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39 | - implement Coro->cancel in XS for a 20% speed improvement, and to |
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40 | be able to implement mutual cancellation. |
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41 | - speed up context switches by a percent or two by more efficiently |
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42 | allocating context stack entries. |
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43 | - implement Coro->join and Coro->on_destroy in XS for a speedup and |
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44 | a reduction in memory use. |
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45 | - cancelling a coro while it itself is cancelling another coro is |
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46 | now supported and working, instead of triggering an assertion. |
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47 | - be a bit more crash-resistant when calling (buggy) on_destroy |
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48 | callbacks (best effort). |
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49 | - move on_destroy into the slf_frame, to allow extension slf |
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50 | functions to have destructors. |
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51 | - get rid if coro refcounting - simply crash in other interpreter |
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52 | threads by nulling the pointers on clone. |
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53 | - simplify warn/die hook handling when loading Coro - the convoluted |
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54 | logic seems to be no longer neccessary. |
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55 | - use libecb instead of our own home-grown gcc hacks. |
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56 | - document alternatives to Coro::LWP. Please use them :) |
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57 | - work around another mindless idiotic NEEDLESS bug in openbsd/mirbsds |
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58 | sigaltstack. Really. wine suffers from it, erlang suffers from it, |
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59 | and it's known since at least 2006. |
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| 7 | 5.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011 |
61 | 5.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011 |
| 8 | - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to |
62 | - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to |
| 9 | work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to |
63 | work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to |
| 10 | my attention by Max Maischein). |
64 | my attention by Max Maischein). |
