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Revision 1.83 by pcg, Wed Nov 5 20:02:43 2003 UTC vs.
Revision 1.227 by root, Fri Apr 27 19:26:18 2007 UTC

1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2
3TODO: better (earlier) error messages on broken transfer's
4TODO: destroy gets only called on cancel: fix(?)
5TODO: should explore PerlIO::via::CoroCede and PerlIO::via::CoroAIO.
6TODO: maybe implement a default message channel, very much like Erlang
7 (which is cool in a lot of important aspects (failures!),
8 but very lacking in others).
9
10 - upgrade libcoro.
11
123.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
13 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
14 pst's sometimes.
15 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
16 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
17 be threadsafe...).
18 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
19 but stateful semantics.
20 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
21 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
22
233.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
24 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
25 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
26 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
27 (EXPERIMENTAL).
28 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
29 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
30 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
31 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
32
333.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
34 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
35 it by default.
36 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
37 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
38 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
39 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
40 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
41 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
42 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
43 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
44 performance.
45
463.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
47 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
48 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
49
503.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
51 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
52 them without asking.
53
543.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
55 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
56 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
57 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
58 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
59 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
60 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
61
623.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
63 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
64 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
65 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
66 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
67 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
68 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
69 obsolete platforms.
70
713.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
72 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
73 but was rather flaky in practise.
74 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
75 it was reused.
76 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
77 in cede_notself.
78
793.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
80 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
81 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
82 documented and - hopefully - improved.
83 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
84 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
85 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
86 that could errronously trigger.
87 - fix various large and small memleaks.
88 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
89 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
90 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
91 - added Coro::guard function.
92 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
93 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
94 and 128k coros with async_pool).
95 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
96
973.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
98 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
99 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
100 - simplify configuration for users.
101 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
102 their coro replacements.
103
1043.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
105 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
106 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
107 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
108 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
109 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
110 - save/restore tainted status.
111 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
112
1133.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
114 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
115 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
116 - give a better error message on deadlock.
117 - document Coro::nready.
118 - enhanced testsuite.
119
1203.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
121 - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
122
1233.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
124 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
125 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
126 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
127 pool (size currently hardcoded).
128 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
129 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
130 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
131 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
132 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
133 check for changed watchers.
134 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
135 per event.
136 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
137 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
138 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
139 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
140 some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
141 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
142 directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
143 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
144 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
145 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
146 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
147 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
148 - updated to newest libcoro.
149 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
150 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
151 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
152 and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
153 if somebody asks for it :)
154 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
155 spuriously without the event having happened.
156
1572.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
158 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
159 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
160 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
161 make LWP non-blocking.
162 - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
163 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
164 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
165 - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
166 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
167 - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
168 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
169 by LWP(!!).
170 - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
171 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
172 kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
173 did already.
174
1752.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
176 - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
177 zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
178 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
179 (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
180 - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
181 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
182 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
183 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
184
1852.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
186 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
187
1881.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
189
1901.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
191 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
192 mark & sweep gc run.
193 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
194
1951.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
196 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
197 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
198
1991.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
200 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
201 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
202 wrong package.
203 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
204 perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
205 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
206 normally uses.
207 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
208
2091.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
210 - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
211
2121.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
213 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
214 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
215 - strict'ify some modules.
216 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
217 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
218 - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
219
2201.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
221 - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
222 when 'l'inux method was used.
223
2241.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
225 - some portability fixes/workarounds.
226
2271.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
228 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
229 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
230 Coro::State::flush method.
231 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
232
2331.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
234 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
235 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
236 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
237 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
238 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
239
2401.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
241 - change of contact address.
242
2431.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
244 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
245 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
246
2471.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
248 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
249 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
250 padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
251
2520.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
253 - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
254
2550.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
256 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
257 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
258 as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
259 Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
260 between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
261 fixable).
262 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
263
2640.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
265 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
266 faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
267 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
268 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
269 observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
270 of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
271 pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
272 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
273 - fix for threaded perl.
274
2750.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
276 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
277 memory leaks.
278 - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
279 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
280 hopefully ignoring it "just works".
2 281
30.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003 2820.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
4 - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported! 283 - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
5 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket. 284 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
6 285

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