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Revision 1.574 by root, Wed Jun 29 17:43:23 2011 UTC vs.
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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: 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
6TODO: __GCC_HAVE_DWARF2_CFI_ASM
6 7
7TODO: tutorial 8TODO: add peerhost/peerport from IO::Socket::INET etc.
9
10 - use experimental fiber implementation on native windows
11 perls.
12 - use sizeof (void *) as multiplication factor for stack sizes,
13 to accomodate the totally braindamaged microsoft 64 bit "os".
14 - implement 5.17 compatibility by almost blindly applying a
15 good-looking patch by Father Chrysostomos.
16 - move stack management functions into libcoro 3.
17 - support magic values as timed_io_once args.
18 - recommend AnyEvent 7+ or EV 4+, also require EV
19 version 4 or newer for Coro::EV.
20
216.10 Tue Oct 9 01:14:27 CEST 2012
22 - updated ecb.h, it had a typo that caused it to not compile on many
23 big endian systems (reported by many people).
24 - disable memory fences in ecb.h to improve portability.
25
266.09 Sat Oct 6 23:25:02 CEST 2012
27 - Coro::EV I/O watchers were not interruptible by exceptions
28 (Coro::State::throw) (testcase by sten).
29 - ->throw now puts threads into the ready queue, as this seems to
30 be expected by existing code, and code that doesn't cope with spurious
31 wakeups needs fixing anyway.
32 - use fd -1 in mmap.
33 - cast I32 to int in error message printf.
34 - warn about broken so-called "hardened" kernels.
35
366.08 Fri Apr 13 12:05:47 CEST 2012
37 - be more aggressive about exiting like perl does - formerly,
38 exiting from the non-main thread would not execute END blocks.
39
406.07 Fri Nov 11 21:21:48 CET 2011
41 - work around a bug in PerlIO (setting $SIG{__WARN__} to a PVCV).
42 - update ecb.h.
43
446.06 Mon Aug 8 23:59:48 CEST 2011
45 - cygwin unfortunately patches the stack at runtime, so we use the pthreads
46 backend, which is an order of magnitude slower. unfortunately, cygwins
47 pthread implementation isn't very complete either, so allocate the stack
48 twice just to be sure.
49 (note: cygwin also enables mymalloc, which is NOT THREADSAFE ON WINDOWS,
50 in its ithreaded perl - best recompile cygwin and use the 'w'indows
51 backend for much better performance. also disable ithreads for
52 even better performance...).
53
546.05 Thu Aug 4 21:36:36 CEST 2011
55 - blush, condvar values would not be propagated from send to recv anymore
56 (reported by Chip Salzenberg).
57 - use exponential increase for the readline buffer length in
58 Coro::Handle. also reduce initial allocation to 1020 from 4096 bytes.
59
606.04 Wed Aug 3 17:15:45 CEST 2011
61 - use even more efficient and more compatible condvars for
62 compatibility to AnyEvent 6.x :)
63 - more inconsequential ecb.h updates.
64
656.03 Wed Aug 3 11:41:30 CEST 2011
66 - change how Coro patches AnyEvent condvars for compatibility to
67 AnyEvent 6.x.
68 - update ecb.h, to no longer include <pthread.h> in case WinNT.h
69 hasn't been included.
70
716.02 Wed Jul 13 04:35:19 CEST 2011
72 - "improve portability to Gentoo" - gentoo manages to put perl variables
73 in memory areas that are farther than 2gb apart, which the jit couldn't
74 handle and barfed. now it's just a bit slower on gentoo and similar
75 systems.
76
776.01 Sun Jul 3 12:31:14 CEST 2011
78 - workarounds are good, but the test for whether pthreads are used
79 was not good. thisone should be better.
80 - check differently whether gcc generates cfi instructions itself.
81
826.0 Wed Jun 29 19:43:35 CEST 2011
8 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: unreferenced coro objects will now be 83 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: unreferenced coro objects will now be
9 destroyed and cleaned up automatically (e.g. async { schedule }). 84 destroyed and cleaned up automatically (e.g. async { schedule }).
10 - implement a JIT compiler for part of the thread switch code, 85 - implement a JIT compiler for part of the thread switch code,
11 which gives a 50% speed improvement on threaded perls, and 86 which gives a 50% speed improvement on threaded perls, and
12 about 4% on non-thraeded perls (so threaded perls now finally 87 about 4% on non-thraeded perls (so threaded perls now finally

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