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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: __GCC_HAVE_DWARF2_CFI_ASM
6TODO: swap_sv, maybe add scope_swap_sv, andallow to unswap by repeat?
7TODO: swap_sv not undone in pool
8TODO: croak when async_pool tries to run canceled thread?
9
10 - avoid segfaulting (or worse) when tracing a canceled thread.
11 - the Event module silently broke it's public hook API, causing
12 failures on perls compiled with -Duselongdouble. Requiring
13 the latest version of Event because I don't know which release
14 changed this (it's not mentioned in the ChangeLog).
15 - allow xs level enterleave hooks via CoroAPI.
16
176.43 Thu Jun 4 15:38:14 CEST 2015
18 - use stability canary.
19 - port to stableperl-5.22.0-1.001.
20 - update libecb.
21
226.42 Wed Feb 11 20:29:52 CET 2015
23 - Coro::SemaphoreSet->try did not actually work (analyzed by
24 SATO Kentaro).
25 - upgrade libecb to be C11 compliant.
26
276.41 Sat Sep 6 22:08:46 CEST 2014
28 - restore portability to perl 5.8.x.
29 - give new Coro's a valid GvHV(PL_hintgv) - this is slow and takes
30 up some memory, but fixes "use feature" and similar modules
31 when used inside a Coro.
32 - allow zero as argument to Coro::Channel to mean the same thing
33 as no argument. this works with older versions as well,
34 but wasn't legal until now.
35 - slightly better c header file detection.
36
376.39 Mon Jun 2 00:00:08 CEST 2014
38 - work around more incompatible changes in 5.20.
39
406.38 Sun Jun 1 21:54:23 CEST 2014
41 - check that perl slots actually have enough space to hold
42 interpreter variables.
43 - untested port to perl 5.19 (64 bit tmps indices) (reported
44 by Andreas König).
45 - croak when cancel is called without a thread context.
46
476.37 Tue Mar 4 13:27:33 CET 2014
48 - *sigh*, removed leftover debugging code from debugging a
49 perl bug, of all things.
50
516.36 Tue Mar 4 07:11:59 CET 2014
52 - semaphores would not clear the destroy hook when interrupted
53 by ->throw, causing segfaults or worse.
54 - ->throw on a thread waiting for a semaphore did not acquire
55 the semaphore, but also didn't wake up other waiters,
56 possibly causing a deadlock.
57 - "FATAL: $Coro::IDLE blocked itself" will now use Carp::confess
58 to report a full stacktrace, which should help find out
59 where the actual call is.
60 - "atomically" destroy data in slf_destroy, because it is
61 the right thing to do, just in case.
62 - disable ecb.h libm dependency, to compile on ancient systems
63 or under adverse conditions.
64
656.33 Mon Nov 18 11:26:27 CET 2013
66 - do not crash when freeing padlists with holes (in 5.18).
67 - tentative SVt_BIND 5.19 port/fix.
68
696.32 Tue Nov 5 15:35:35 CET 2013
70 - use a new algorithm to derive padlists for perl 5.18. The old
71 one could lead to 0-pointer accesses inside perl (reported
72 by Darin McBride).
73
746.31 Thu May 9 07:39:48 CEST 2013
75 - Coro::AIO requests would crash if the thread was ready'd
76 while the request was ongoing.
77
786.29 Wed May 8 02:55:18 CEST 2013
79 - when an on_destroy handler destructs the coro currently being
80 destructed a perl scalar could be accessed after being freed,
81 likely causing a crash.
82
836.28 Wed Mar 6 06:58:02 CET 2013
84 - clean remnants of existing __DIE__ and __WARN__ handlers so
85 they lose their magic and will not cause segfaults later
86 (testcase by Andrey Sagulin).
87 - improved Coro::State documentation a bit.
88 - Coro::Debug::command now flushes the output.
89 - add hack detection code for x32 abi, because the braindead slugs
90 who designed that made it look exactly like x86_64 without
91 providing proper compile time symbols to test for it. as a result,
92 this detection cannot work reliably.
93 - valgrind stack registering was broken.
94 - do not rely on Time::HiRes anymore in Coro::Debug.
95
966.23 Fri Dec 7 23:36:37 CET 2012
97 - use experimental fiber implementation on native windows
98 perls.
99 - use sizeof (void *) as multiplication factor for stack sizes,
100 to accomodate the totally braindamaged microsoft 64 bit "os".
101 - changed verifier host from win2k-ap510-32 to win7-sp516-32/64.
102 activeperl 5.16 crashes when PerlIO_define_layer is called due
103 to some bug in the perl dll, strawberry perl at least passes
104 the testsuite.
105 - implement Coro::Handle->peeraddr/host/port, for slightly
106 improved compatibility with LWP.
107 - implement 5.17 compatibility by almost blindly applying a
108 good-looking patch by Father Chrysostomos.
109 - move stack management functions into libcoro 3.
110 - libcoro version 3 "released".
111 - support magic values as timed_io_once args.
112 - recommend AnyEvent 7+ or EV 4+, also require EV
113 version 4 or newer for Coro::EV.
114
1156.10 Tue Oct 9 01:14:27 CEST 2012
116 - updated ecb.h, it had a typo that caused it to not compile on many
117 big endian systems (reported by many people).
118 - disable memory fences in ecb.h to improve portability.
119
1206.09 Sat Oct 6 23:25:02 CEST 2012
121 - Coro::EV I/O watchers were not interruptible by exceptions
122 (Coro::State::throw) (testcase by sten).
123 - ->throw now puts threads into the ready queue, as this seems to
124 be expected by existing code, and code that doesn't cope with spurious
125 wakeups needs fixing anyway.
126 - use fd -1 in mmap.
127 - cast I32 to int in error message printf.
128 - warn about broken so-called "hardened" kernels.
129
1306.08 Fri Apr 13 12:05:47 CEST 2012
131 - be more aggressive about exiting like perl does - formerly,
132 exiting from the non-main thread would not execute END blocks.
133
1346.07 Fri Nov 11 21:21:48 CET 2011
135 - work around a bug in PerlIO (setting $SIG{__WARN__} to a PVCV).
136 - update ecb.h.
137
1386.06 Mon Aug 8 23:59:48 CEST 2011
139 - cygwin unfortunately patches the stack at runtime, so we use the pthreads
140 backend, which is an order of magnitude slower. unfortunately, cygwins
141 pthread implementation isn't very complete either, so allocate the stack
142 twice just to be sure.
143 (note: cygwin also enables mymalloc, which is NOT THREADSAFE ON WINDOWS,
144 in its ithreaded perl - best recompile cygwin and use the 'w'indows
145 backend for much better performance. also disable ithreads for
146 even better performance...).
147
1486.05 Thu Aug 4 21:36:36 CEST 2011
149 - blush, condvar values would not be propagated from send to recv anymore
150 (reported by Chip Salzenberg).
151 - use exponential increase for the readline buffer length in
152 Coro::Handle. also reduce initial allocation to 1020 from 4096 bytes.
153
1546.04 Wed Aug 3 17:15:45 CEST 2011
155 - use even more efficient and more compatible condvars for
156 compatibility to AnyEvent 6.x :)
157 - more inconsequential ecb.h updates.
158
1596.03 Wed Aug 3 11:41:30 CEST 2011
160 - change how Coro patches AnyEvent condvars for compatibility to
161 AnyEvent 6.x.
162 - update ecb.h, to no longer include <pthread.h> in case WinNT.h
163 hasn't been included.
164
1656.02 Wed Jul 13 04:35:19 CEST 2011
166 - "improve portability to Gentoo" - gentoo manages to put perl variables
167 in memory areas that are farther than 2gb apart, which the jit couldn't
168 handle and barfed. now it's just a bit slower on gentoo and similar
169 systems.
170
1716.01 Sun Jul 3 12:31:14 CEST 2011
172 - workarounds are good, but the test for whether pthreads are used
173 was not good. this one should be better.
174 - check differently whether gcc generates cfi instructions itself.
175
1766.0 Wed Jun 29 19:43:35 CEST 2011
177 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: unreferenced coro objects will now be
178 destroyed and cleaned up automatically (e.g. async { schedule }).
179 - implement a JIT compiler for part of the thread switch code,
180 which gives a 50% speed improvement on threaded perls, and
181 about 4% on non-threaded perls (so threaded perls now finally
182 reach about half the speed of non-threaded perls).
183 - slightly modernise Coro::Intro, add section about rouse functions.
184 - avoid DEFSV and ERRSV, giving another 10% improvement
185 in thread switching.
186 - Coro::State->is_destroyed is now called is_zombie.
187 - implement a Coro->safe_cancel method that might fail, but
188 cancels in a "safer" way if it succeeds.
189 - add preliminary support for DEBUGGING perls.
190 - get rid of two hash-accesses when initialising a new Coro - this
191 speeds up coro creation by almost a factor of two.
192 - croak when a coro that is being cancelled tries to block
193 (e.g. while executing a guard block), instead of crashing or
194 deadlocking.
195 - use a more robust and also faster method to identify Coro::State
196 objects - speeds up everything a bit.
197 - implement Coro->cancel in XS for a 20% speed improvement, and to
198 be able to implement mutual cancellation.
199 - speed up context switches by a percent or two by more efficiently
200 allocating context stack entries.
201 - implement Coro->join and Coro->on_destroy in XS for a speedup and
202 a reduction in memory use.
203 - cancelling a coro while it itself is cancelling another coro is
204 now supported and working, instead of triggering an assertion.
205 - be a bit more crash-resistant when calling (buggy) on_destroy
206 callbacks (best effort).
207 - move on_destroy into the slf_frame, to allow extension slf
208 functions to have destructors.
209 - get rid if coro refcounting - simply crash in other interpreter
210 threads by nulling the pointers on clone.
211 - simplify warn/die hook handling when loading Coro - the convoluted
212 logic seems to be no longer neccessary.
213 - use libecb instead of our own home-grown gcc hacks.
214 - document alternatives to Coro::LWP. Please use them :)
215 - work around another mindless idiotic NEEDLESS bug in openbsd/mirbsds
216 sigaltstack. Really. wine suffers from it, erlang suffers from it,
217 and it's known since at least 2006.
218
2195.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011
220 - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to
221 work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to
222 my attention by Max Maischein).
223 - fix some portability issues when Time::HiRes was used.
6 224
75.371 Mon Feb 21 14:36:08 CET 2011 2255.371 Mon Feb 21 14:36:08 CET 2011
8 - backport to windows process emulation code again. 226 - backport to windows process emulation code again.
9 227
105.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011 2285.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011
322 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects. 540 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
323 - clean up cctx creation code a bit. 541 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
324 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix). 542 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
325 543
3264.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008 5444.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008
327 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there). 545 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
328 - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend, 546 - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
329 also speed it up considerably. 547 also speed it up considerably.
330 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed. 548 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
331 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile. 549 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
332 - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly. 550 - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
394 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to 612 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to
395 make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves 613 make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves
396 outdated software). Reported by John S. 614 outdated software). Reported by John S.
397 615
3984.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008 6164.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008
399 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented. 617 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented.
400 - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current 618 - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current
401 implementations inside perl work fine for us. 619 implementations inside perl work fine for us.
402 620
4034.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008 6214.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008
404 - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could 622 - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could
426 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress 644 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress
427 warnings for some other modules. 645 warnings for some other modules.
428 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK. 646 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
429 647
4304.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008 6484.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008
431 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way 649 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way
432 to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :( 650 to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :(
433 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to 651 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to
434 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...). 652 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...).
435 - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented 653 - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented
436 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage 654 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage
440 - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around 658 - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around
441 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by 659 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by
442 tcp sockets on windows. ugh.) 660 tcp sockets on windows. ugh.)
443 661
4444.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008 6624.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008
445 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()"). 663 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()").
446 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util. 664 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util.
447 - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP. 665 - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP.
448 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother 666 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother
449 scheduling. 667 scheduling.
450 668
4514.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008 6694.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
452 - completely reworked the Coro manpage. 670 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
453 - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration. 671 - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
454 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug. 672 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
455 - document find_coro in Coro::Debug. 673 - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
456 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx. 674 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
457 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection, 675 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
458 use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB. 676 use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
582 800
5834.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007 8014.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
584 - port to threaded perls. 802 - port to threaded perls.
585 803
5864.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007 8044.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
587 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now 805 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
588 be local to each coro (see Coro::State). 806 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
589 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself 807 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
590 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned. 808 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
591 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested). 809 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
592 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(. 810 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
664 but stateful semantics. 882 but stateful semantics.
665 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David 883 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
666 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly). 884 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
667 885
6683.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007 8863.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
669 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again. 887 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
670 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw. 888 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
671 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit 889 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
672 (EXPERIMENTAL). 890 (EXPERIMENTAL).
673 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init. 891 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
674 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to 892 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to

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