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1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2 2
3TODO: should explore PerlIO::via::CoroCede and PerlIO::via::CoroAIO. 3TODO: should explore PerlIO::coroaio (perl leaks like hell).
4TODO: maybe implement a default message channel, very much like Erlang 4TODO: channel->maxsize(newsize)?
5 (which is cool in a lot of important aspects (failures!), 5TODO: __GCC_HAVE_DWARF2_CFI_ASM
6 but very lacking in others (higher level ipc)).
7 6
76.29 Wed May 8 02:55:18 CEST 2013
8 - when an on_destroy handler destructs the coro currently being
9 destructed a perl scalar could be accessed after being freed,
10 likely causing a crash.
11
126.28 Wed Mar 6 06:58:02 CET 2013
13 - clean remnants of existing __DIE__ and __WARN__ handlers so
14 they lose their magic and will not cause segfaults later
15 (testcase by Andrey Sagulin).
16 - improved Coro::State documentation a bit.
17 - Coro::Debug::command now flushes the output.
18 - add hack detection code for x32 abi, because the braindead slugs
19 who designed that made it look exactly like x86_64 without
20 providing proper compile time symbols to test for it. as a result,
21 this detection cannot work reliably.
22 - valgrind stack registering was broken.
23 - do not rely on Time::HiRes anymore in Coro::Debug.
24
256.23 Fri Dec 7 23:36:37 CET 2012
26 - use experimental fiber implementation on native windows
27 perls.
28 - use sizeof (void *) as multiplication factor for stack sizes,
29 to accomodate the totally braindamaged microsoft 64 bit "os".
30 - changed verifier host from win2k-ap510-32 to win7-sp516-32/64.
31 activeperl 5.16 crashes when PerlIO_define_layer is called due
32 to some bug in the perl dll, strawberry perl at least passes
33 the testsuite.
34 - implement Coro::Handle->peeraddr/host/port, for slightly
35 improved compatibility with LWP.
36 - implement 5.17 compatibility by almost blindly applying a
37 good-looking patch by Father Chrysostomos.
38 - move stack management functions into libcoro 3.
39 - libcoro version 3 "released".
40 - support magic values as timed_io_once args.
41 - recommend AnyEvent 7+ or EV 4+, also require EV
42 version 4 or newer for Coro::EV.
43
446.10 Tue Oct 9 01:14:27 CEST 2012
45 - updated ecb.h, it had a typo that caused it to not compile on many
46 big endian systems (reported by many people).
47 - disable memory fences in ecb.h to improve portability.
48
496.09 Sat Oct 6 23:25:02 CEST 2012
50 - Coro::EV I/O watchers were not interruptible by exceptions
51 (Coro::State::throw) (testcase by sten).
52 - ->throw now puts threads into the ready queue, as this seems to
53 be expected by existing code, and code that doesn't cope with spurious
54 wakeups needs fixing anyway.
55 - use fd -1 in mmap.
56 - cast I32 to int in error message printf.
57 - warn about broken so-called "hardened" kernels.
58
596.08 Fri Apr 13 12:05:47 CEST 2012
60 - be more aggressive about exiting like perl does - formerly,
61 exiting from the non-main thread would not execute END blocks.
62
636.07 Fri Nov 11 21:21:48 CET 2011
64 - work around a bug in PerlIO (setting $SIG{__WARN__} to a PVCV).
65 - update ecb.h.
66
676.06 Mon Aug 8 23:59:48 CEST 2011
68 - cygwin unfortunately patches the stack at runtime, so we use the pthreads
69 backend, which is an order of magnitude slower. unfortunately, cygwins
70 pthread implementation isn't very complete either, so allocate the stack
71 twice just to be sure.
72 (note: cygwin also enables mymalloc, which is NOT THREADSAFE ON WINDOWS,
73 in its ithreaded perl - best recompile cygwin and use the 'w'indows
74 backend for much better performance. also disable ithreads for
75 even better performance...).
76
776.05 Thu Aug 4 21:36:36 CEST 2011
78 - blush, condvar values would not be propagated from send to recv anymore
79 (reported by Chip Salzenberg).
80 - use exponential increase for the readline buffer length in
81 Coro::Handle. also reduce initial allocation to 1020 from 4096 bytes.
82
836.04 Wed Aug 3 17:15:45 CEST 2011
84 - use even more efficient and more compatible condvars for
85 compatibility to AnyEvent 6.x :)
86 - more inconsequential ecb.h updates.
87
886.03 Wed Aug 3 11:41:30 CEST 2011
89 - change how Coro patches AnyEvent condvars for compatibility to
90 AnyEvent 6.x.
91 - update ecb.h, to no longer include <pthread.h> in case WinNT.h
92 hasn't been included.
93
946.02 Wed Jul 13 04:35:19 CEST 2011
95 - "improve portability to Gentoo" - gentoo manages to put perl variables
96 in memory areas that are farther than 2gb apart, which the jit couldn't
97 handle and barfed. now it's just a bit slower on gentoo and similar
98 systems.
99
1006.01 Sun Jul 3 12:31:14 CEST 2011
101 - workarounds are good, but the test for whether pthreads are used
102 was not good. thisone should be better.
103 - check differently whether gcc generates cfi instructions itself.
104
1056.0 Wed Jun 29 19:43:35 CEST 2011
106 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: unreferenced coro objects will now be
107 destroyed and cleaned up automatically (e.g. async { schedule }).
108 - implement a JIT compiler for part of the thread switch code,
109 which gives a 50% speed improvement on threaded perls, and
110 about 4% on non-thraeded perls (so threaded perls now finally
111 reach about half the speed of non-threaded perls).
112 - slightly modernise Coro::Intro, add section about rouse functions.
113 - avoid DEFSV and ERRSV, giving another 10% improvement
114 in thread switching.
115 - Coro::State->is_destroyed is now called is_zombie.
116 - implement a Coro->safe_cancel method that might fail, but
117 cancels in a "safer" way if it succeeds.
118 - add preliminary support for DEBUGGING perls.
119 - get rid of two hash-accesses when initialising a new Coro - this
120 speeds up coro creation by almost a factor of two.
121 - croak when a coro that is being cancelled tries to block
122 (e.g. while executing a guard block), instead of crashing or
123 deadlocking.
124 - use a more robust and also faster method to identify Coro::State
125 objects - speeds up everything a bit.
126 - implement Coro->cancel in XS for a 20% speed improvement, and to
127 be able to implement mutual cancellation.
128 - speed up context switches by a percent or two by more efficiently
129 allocating context stack entries.
130 - implement Coro->join and Coro->on_destroy in XS for a speedup and
131 a reduction in memory use.
132 - cancelling a coro while it itself is cancelling another coro is
133 now supported and working, instead of triggering an assertion.
134 - be a bit more crash-resistant when calling (buggy) on_destroy
135 callbacks (best effort).
136 - move on_destroy into the slf_frame, to allow extension slf
137 functions to have destructors.
138 - get rid if coro refcounting - simply crash in other interpreter
139 threads by nulling the pointers on clone.
140 - simplify warn/die hook handling when loading Coro - the convoluted
141 logic seems to be no longer neccessary.
142 - use libecb instead of our own home-grown gcc hacks.
143 - document alternatives to Coro::LWP. Please use them :)
144 - work around another mindless idiotic NEEDLESS bug in openbsd/mirbsds
145 sigaltstack. Really. wine suffers from it, erlang suffers from it,
146 and it's known since at least 2006.
147
1485.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011
149 - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to
150 work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to
151 my attention by Max Maischein).
152 - fix some portability issues when Time::HiRes was used.
153
1545.371 Mon Feb 21 14:36:08 CET 2011
155 - backport to windows process emulation code again.
156
1575.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011
158 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
159 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
160 introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
161 - no longer use Time::HiRes if gettimeofday is available, which
162 saves quite a lot of memory.
163
1645.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
165 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
166 Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
167 method call.
168 - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
169 - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
170 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
171 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
172
1735.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
174 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
175 working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
176 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
177 with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
178
1795.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
180 - port to the EV 4.0 API.
181 - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
182 out of the box.
183 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
184 so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
185 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
186
1875.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
188 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
189 Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
190 Waldorf).
191 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
192
1935.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
194 - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
195 (testcase by Marc Mims).
196 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
197 are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
198 functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
199 fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
200 with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
201 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
202 modules could have provided their own idle coro already
203 (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
204 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
205 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
206
2075.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
208 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
209 together.
210 - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
211 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
212 the most common source of confusion.
213 - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
214 - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
215 older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
216 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
217
2185.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
219 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
220 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
221 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
222 - new method $state->swap_sv.
223 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
224 after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
225 salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
226 were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
227 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
228 and maybe well enough for others to understand.
229 - use common::sense everywhere now.
230 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
231 - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
232
2335.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
234 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
235 when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
236 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
237 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
238 setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
239 - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
240
2415.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
242 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
243 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
244
2455.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
246 - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
247 used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
248 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
249 not on demand.
250 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
251
2525.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
253 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
254 when no threads had been readied between detecting
255 the event loop and actually running it.
256 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
257 of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
258 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
259 (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
260 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
261 and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
262 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
263 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
264 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
265 for hardcode select overriding.
266
2675.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
268 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
269 Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
270 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
271
2725.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
273 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
274 AnyEvent::Socket instead.
275 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
276 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
277 to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
278 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
279 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
280 reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
281 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
282 (Coro::State::enable_times).
283
2845.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
285 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
286 as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
287 idle_upto).
288 - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
289 - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
290 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
291 avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
292 had already been freed.
293 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
294 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
295 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
296 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
297 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
298 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
299 Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
300 (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
301 - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
302 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
303 - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
304 (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
305
3065.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
307 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
308 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
309 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
310 should support a prepare callback.
311
3125.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
313 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
314 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
315 the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
316
3175.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
318 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
319 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
320 spurious warnings.
321 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
322 - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
323 - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
324 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
325 - deprecate Coro::guard.
326 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
327 testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
328 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
329 - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
330 - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
331 when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
332 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
333 to avoid needless segfaults.
334
3355.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
336 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
337 compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
338 openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
339 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
340 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
341 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
342 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
343 - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
344 destruction.
345 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
346 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
347 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
348 - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
349 pthreads fare better?).
350 - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
351
3525.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
353 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
354 working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
355 it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
356
3575.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
358 - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
359 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
360 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
361 and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
362 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
363 LWP data transfers.
364 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
365 correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
366 objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
367 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
368 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably
369 doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
370 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
371 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
372 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
373 do not have this method (and don't need it either).
374 - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
375 callbacks.
376 - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
377 others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
378 through the idle threads now.
379 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
380 - eg/event was pretty broken.
381 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
382
3835.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
384 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
385 stability issues.
386 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
387 - removed timed_* functions - they were not being used anyways
388 and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
389 and were annoying to support anyways :)
390 - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem method instead.
391 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
392 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
393 ("Attempt to unreference...").
394 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
395 was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
396 would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where
397 it was available but waiters were still blocked).
398 - calling throw on a coroutine that is waiting for a semaphore will
399 no longer make it acquire the semaphore (and thus leak a count).
400 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported
401 anymore.
402 - new functions Coro::rouse_cb and Coro::rouse_wait for easier
403 conversion of callback-style to blocking-style.
404 - new methods $coro->schedule_to and ->cede_to, to specifically
405 schedule or cede to a specific coroutine.
406 - new function Coro::Semaphore::wait.
407 - use named constants in Coro::Channel (Richard Hundt).
408 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede,
409 transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but
410 more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of
411 entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from
412 those functions and atcually create new ones.
413 - take advantage of __builtin_frame_address on gcc.
414 - expose THX in coroapi (not sure whether this was a wise decision,
415 as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways).
416 - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes
417 it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS.
418 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a
419 factor of two.
420 - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a
421 factor of three.
422 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of
423 four and reduce its memory usage considerably.
424 - implement Coro::SemaphoreSet purely in terms of Coro::Semaphore,
425 for a nice speedup and vastly more correct behaviour. Also implement
426 a new method "sem" to get at the underlying semaphore object.
427 - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate
428 (in comparison) 20-40% speedup.
429 - used new SLF interface to reimplement Coro::Signal gaining
430 some unknown (because I was too lazy), but certain, speedup, and also
431 making signals reliable for the first time.
432 - used new SLF interface and other optimisations to speed up async_pool
433 by a factor of two. It also doesn't rely on perl's exception mechanism
434 to exit anymore. The overhead for terminating an async_pool, coro over
435 a normal async is now very small.
436 - sped up coroutine creation/destruction by 40%.
437 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years.
438 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
439 pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
440 - use new rouse functions to speed up and simplify Coro::BDB.
441 - make "prefer perl native functions" work with threaded perls.
442 - condense Coro::Debug ps output, hint at v and w flags.
443 - (libcoro) lots of minor cleanups and portability improvements.
444
4454.914 Wed Nov 19 12:54:18 CET 2008
446 - fix a disastrous bug in the readline optimisation
447 introduced in 4.801.
448
4494.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008
450 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
451 ("Attempt to unreference...").
452
4534.912 Thu Nov 13 18:31:23 CET 2008
454 - minor cleanups.
455 - use much larger stacks on linux and perl < 5.8.8.
456 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server did not unlink the socket
457 when destroyed.
458
4594.911 Tue Nov 11 04:26:17 CET 2008
460 - "port" to threaded perls.
461
4624.91 Mon Nov 10 05:36:38 CET 2008
463 - the ->throw exception object no longer leaks.
464 - creating a new cctx leaked a scopestack entry (memleak).
465 - new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field
466 (unknown impact).
467 - calling ->throw on a not-yet-started coroutine should now work
468 instead of being ignored.
469 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
470 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
471 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
472
4734.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008
474 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
475 - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
476 also speed it up considerably.
477 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
478 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
479 - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
480 - Coro::State::cctx_stacksize wasn't applied correctly.
481 - new function Coro::State::cctx_max_idle.
482 - the default max number of idle C contexts is now 4.
483 - (libcoro) try harder to get _setjmp/_longjmp.
484 - (libcoro) cleanup and extend the libcoro API to officially
485 allow the creation of empty source contexts.
486 - very experimental workaround for the totally broken netbsd platform.
487 - tried to hack around openbsd bugs.
488
4894.804 Wed Nov 5 16:36:00 CET 2008
490 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server would not create a non-blocking listening
491 socket, sometimes causing freezes.
492 - (libcoro) fix misaligned stack points for setjmp and assembly
493 methods, which can cause crashes on x86/x86_64 with a sufficiently
494 aggressive compiler.
495 - new function: Coro::Debug::new_tcp_server.
496 - move ->throw into the Coro class because it only works on coro objects.
497
4984.803 Mon Nov 3 17:16:12 CET 2008
499 - (libcoro) use a global asm statement to become independent of gcc
500 otpimisations for CORO_ASM (thanks to pippijn for the idea).
501 - try to workaround yet another broken bsd, this time dragonfly.
502
5034.802 Thu Oct 30 10:56:12 CET 2008
504 - support -fno-omit-frame-pointer on x86 with the assembly method.
505 - tune 01_unblock.t tests a bit.
506
5074.801 Wed Oct 22 18:33:37 CEST 2008
508 - improve readline speed for very long "lines".
509 - backport to 5.8.8.
510
5114.8 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
512 - new function Coro::AIO::aio_wait.
513 - Coro.:AIO and Coro::BDB now "use Coro::AnyEvent".
514 - greatly speed up and reduce memory usage of Coro::AIO requests.
515 - implement some other µ-optimisations.
516
5174.749 Mon Sep 29 14:40:12 CEST 2008
518 - port to slow and broken pseudo-threaded perls. (courtesy pippijn).
519
5204.748 Sat Sep 27 14:03:19 CEST 2008
521 - implement, but do not document, PerlIO::cede(granularity).
522 - Coro::Storable forgot to wrap Storable::pstore.
523 - work around the multitude of leaks and memory corruption
524 bugs in PerlIO::via by using our own C-level perliol. As a side
525 effect, Coro::Storable is now much, much, much faster.
526
5274.747 Tue Sep 23 01:59:41 CEST 2008
528 - fix a per-cv memleak (one empty array was leaked per
529 code reference).
530 - avoid a crash in coro->call|rss when the coroutine was already
531 destroyed (most noticably when using Coro::Debug::ps :)
532 - also protect *Storable::FILE.
533 - push up default storable granularity to 20ms.
534
5354.746 Sun Sep 21 03:22:20 CEST 2008
536 - be more insistent on locking Storable against reentrancy
537 in Coro::Storable.
538 - move swap_def?v and throw to Coro::State, as documented.
539
5404.745 Thu Jul 24 00:14:38 CEST 2008
541 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to
542 make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves
543 outdated software). Reported by John S.
544
5454.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008
546 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented.
547 - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current
548 implementations inside perl work fine for us.
549
5504.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008
551 - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could
552 result in busy-waiting for events, this has been fixed.
553 - reduce codesize and improve performance by using EV_DEFAULT_UC.
554
5554.742 Sat May 31 14:10:21 CEST 2008
556 - implement a workaround for (some) perl <5.8.8 versions.
557 - require EV 3.3+.
558
5594.741 Fri May 30 23:33:09 CEST 2008
560 - tell netbsd how utterly broken their imitation of an OS is
561 and refuse to build by default if pthreads are in use.
562 - switch to "s" method on all bsd's by default, as their ucontext
563 stuff seems just too broken.
564 - fix a bug in Coro::Select.
565
5664.74 Thu May 29 20:05:31 CEST 2008
567 - do not test Coro::LWP for lack of dependencies.
568 - do not test Coro::Select for lack of working perls.
569
5704.73 Thu May 29 2008
571 - fix a bug in Coro::EV which would cause it to block despite
572 there being runnable coroutines.
573 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress
574 warnings for some other modules.
575 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
576
5774.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008
578 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way
579 to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :(
580 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to
581 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...).
582 - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented
583 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage
584 of AnyEvent's workaround for that problem.
585 - use AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking in Coro::Handle to work around
586 a common perl implementation bug on windows.
587 - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around
588 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by
589 tcp sockets on windows. ugh.)
590
5914.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008
592 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()").
593 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util.
594 - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP.
595 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother
596 scheduling.
597
5984.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
599 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
600 - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
601 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
602 - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
603 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
604 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
605 use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
606
6074.6 Sat Apr 26 10:05:14 CEST 2008
608 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported
609 by the Coro module. It was a mistake to have it in the first place.
610 - (experimental) support for activestate perl 5.10 (method "w").
611 - (experimental) support for strawberry perl (method "a").
612 - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to,
613 actual impact unknown.
614
6154.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008
616 - make it compile again on 5.8.
617
6184.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008
619 - I did it twice! (see 4.49).
620
6214.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008
622 - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they
623 were compiled on 5.8 only.
624
6254.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
626 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
627 the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
628 (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
629 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
630
6314.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
632 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
633 and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
634 leading to crashes and worse.
635 - document force_cctx.
636
6374.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
638 - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
639 to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
640
6414.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
642 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
643 downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
644 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
645 (also add testcase).
646 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
647 apparently having loads of fun with that).
648 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
649
6504.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
651 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
652 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
653 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
654 - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
655 Andreas König.
656
6574.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
658 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
659 "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
660
6614.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
662 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
663 trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
664
6654.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
666 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
667 from longmess and also skips the innermost
668 stackframes, giving more useufl output.
669 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
670 at a <1% speed hit.
671 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
672 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
673
6744.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
675 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
676
6774.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
678 - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
679
6804.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
681 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
682 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
683 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
684
6854.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
686 - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
687
6884.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
689 - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
690 when the stack changed.
8 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used 691 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
9 (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS 692 (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
10 if available. 693 if available.
11 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable. 694 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
12 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV. 695 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.

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