| 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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6 | TODO: __GCC_HAVE_DWARF2_CFI_ASM |
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| 7 | TODO: tutorial |
8 | TODO: add peerhost/peerport from IO::Socket::INET etc. |
| 8 | TODO: in_eval, PL_tained |
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10 | - use experimental fiber implementation on native windows |
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11 | perls. |
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12 | - use sizeof (void *) as multiplication factor for stack sizes, |
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13 | to accomodate the totally braindamaged microsoft 64 bit "os". |
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14 | - implement 5.17 compatibility by almost blindly applying a |
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15 | good-looking patch by Father Chrysostomos. |
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16 | - move stack management functions into libcoro 3. |
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17 | - support magic values as timed_io_once args. |
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18 | - recommend AnyEvent 7+ or EV 4+, also require EV |
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19 | version 4 or newer for Coro::EV. |
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21 | 6.10 Tue Oct 9 01:14:27 CEST 2012 |
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22 | - updated ecb.h, it had a typo that caused it to not compile on many |
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23 | big endian systems (reported by many people). |
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24 | - disable memory fences in ecb.h to improve portability. |
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26 | 6.09 Sat Oct 6 23:25:02 CEST 2012 |
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27 | - Coro::EV I/O watchers were not interruptible by exceptions |
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28 | (Coro::State::throw) (testcase by sten). |
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29 | - ->throw now puts threads into the ready queue, as this seems to |
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30 | be expected by existing code, and code that doesn't cope with spurious |
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31 | wakeups needs fixing anyway. |
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32 | - use fd -1 in mmap. |
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33 | - cast I32 to int in error message printf. |
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34 | - warn about broken so-called "hardened" kernels. |
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36 | 6.08 Fri Apr 13 12:05:47 CEST 2012 |
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37 | - be more aggressive about exiting like perl does - formerly, |
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38 | exiting from the non-main thread would not execute END blocks. |
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40 | 6.07 Fri Nov 11 21:21:48 CET 2011 |
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41 | - work around a bug in PerlIO (setting $SIG{__WARN__} to a PVCV). |
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42 | - update ecb.h. |
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44 | 6.06 Mon Aug 8 23:59:48 CEST 2011 |
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45 | - cygwin unfortunately patches the stack at runtime, so we use the pthreads |
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46 | backend, which is an order of magnitude slower. unfortunately, cygwins |
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47 | pthread implementation isn't very complete either, so allocate the stack |
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48 | twice just to be sure. |
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49 | (note: cygwin also enables mymalloc, which is NOT THREADSAFE ON WINDOWS, |
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50 | in its ithreaded perl - best recompile cygwin and use the 'w'indows |
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51 | backend for much better performance. also disable ithreads for |
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52 | even better performance...). |
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54 | 6.05 Thu Aug 4 21:36:36 CEST 2011 |
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55 | - blush, condvar values would not be propagated from send to recv anymore |
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56 | (reported by Chip Salzenberg). |
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57 | - use exponential increase for the readline buffer length in |
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58 | Coro::Handle. also reduce initial allocation to 1020 from 4096 bytes. |
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60 | 6.04 Wed Aug 3 17:15:45 CEST 2011 |
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61 | - use even more efficient and more compatible condvars for |
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62 | compatibility to AnyEvent 6.x :) |
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63 | - more inconsequential ecb.h updates. |
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65 | 6.03 Wed Aug 3 11:41:30 CEST 2011 |
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66 | - change how Coro patches AnyEvent condvars for compatibility to |
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67 | AnyEvent 6.x. |
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68 | - update ecb.h, to no longer include <pthread.h> in case WinNT.h |
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69 | hasn't been included. |
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71 | 6.02 Wed Jul 13 04:35:19 CEST 2011 |
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72 | - "improve portability to Gentoo" - gentoo manages to put perl variables |
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73 | in memory areas that are farther than 2gb apart, which the jit couldn't |
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74 | handle and barfed. now it's just a bit slower on gentoo and similar |
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75 | systems. |
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77 | 6.01 Sun Jul 3 12:31:14 CEST 2011 |
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78 | - workarounds are good, but the test for whether pthreads are used |
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79 | was not good. thisone should be better. |
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80 | - check differently whether gcc generates cfi instructions itself. |
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82 | 6.0 Wed Jun 29 19:43:35 CEST 2011 |
| 9 | - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: unreferenced coro objects will now be |
83 | - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: unreferenced coro objects will now be |
| 10 | destroyed and cleaned up automatically (e.g. async { schedule }). |
84 | destroyed and cleaned up automatically (e.g. async { schedule }). |
| 11 | - implement a JIT compiler for part of the thread switch code, |
85 | - implement a JIT compiler for part of the thread switch code, |
| 12 | which gives a 50% speed improvement on threaded perls, and |
86 | which gives a 50% speed improvement on threaded perls, and |
| 13 | about 4% on non-thraeded perls (so threaded perls now finally |
87 | about 4% on non-thraeded perls (so threaded perls now finally |
| 14 | reach about half the speed of non-threaded perls). |
88 | reach about half the speed of non-threaded perls). |
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89 | - slightly modernise Coro::Intro, add section about rouse functions. |
| 15 | - avoid DEFSV and ERRSV, giving another 10% improvement |
90 | - avoid DEFSV and ERRSV, giving another 10% improvement |
| 16 | in thread switching. |
91 | in thread switching. |
| 17 | - Coro::State->is_destroyed is now called is_zombie. |
92 | - Coro::State->is_destroyed is now called is_zombie. |
| 18 | - implement a Coro->safe_cancel method that might fail, but |
93 | - implement a Coro->safe_cancel method that might fail, but |
| 19 | cancels in a "safer" way if it succeeds. |
94 | cancels in a "safer" way if it succeeds. |
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95 | - add preliminary support for DEBUGGING perls. |
| 20 | - get rid of two hash-accesses when initialising a new Coro - this |
96 | - get rid of two hash-accesses when initialising a new Coro - this |
| 21 | speeds up coro creation by almost a factor of two. |
97 | speeds up coro creation by almost a factor of two. |
| 22 | - croak when a coro that is being cancelled tries to block |
98 | - croak when a coro that is being cancelled tries to block |
| 23 | (e.g. while executing a guard block), instead of crashing or |
99 | (e.g. while executing a guard block), instead of crashing or |
| 24 | deadlocking. |
100 | deadlocking. |
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| 39 | - get rid if coro refcounting - simply crash in other interpreter |
115 | - get rid if coro refcounting - simply crash in other interpreter |
| 40 | threads by nulling the pointers on clone. |
116 | threads by nulling the pointers on clone. |
| 41 | - simplify warn/die hook handling when loading Coro - the convoluted |
117 | - simplify warn/die hook handling when loading Coro - the convoluted |
| 42 | logic seems to be no longer neccessary. |
118 | logic seems to be no longer neccessary. |
| 43 | - use libecb instead of our own home-grown gcc hacks. |
119 | - use libecb instead of our own home-grown gcc hacks. |
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120 | - document alternatives to Coro::LWP. Please use them :) |
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121 | - work around another mindless idiotic NEEDLESS bug in openbsd/mirbsds |
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122 | sigaltstack. Really. wine suffers from it, erlang suffers from it, |
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123 | and it's known since at least 2006. |
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| 45 | 5.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011 |
125 | 5.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011 |
| 46 | - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to |
126 | - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to |
| 47 | work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to |
127 | work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to |
| 48 | my attention by Max Maischein). |
128 | my attention by Max Maischein). |
