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Revision 1.88 by pcg, Sat Feb 14 12:39:41 2004 UTC vs.
Revision 1.259 by root, Fri Oct 5 23:38:39 2007 UTC

1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
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30.95 Fri Dec 12 20:50:57 CET 2003 3TODO: should explore PerlIO::via::CoroCede and PerlIO::via::CoroAIO.
4TODO: maybe implement a default message channel, very much like Erlang
5 (which is cool in a lot of important aspects (failures!),
6 but very lacking in others (higher level ipc)).
7
84.02
9 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
10 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
11 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
12 or use tracing).
13 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
14
154.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
16 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
17 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
18
194.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
20 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
21 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
22 debugging, tracing and much more.
23 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
24 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
25 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
26 flags.
27 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
28 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
29 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
30 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
31 - added Coro::killall.
32 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
33 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
34 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
35 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
36 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
37 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
38 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
39 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
40 - many minor tweaks.
41
423.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
43 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
44
453.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
46 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
47 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
48
493.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
50 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
51 pst's sometimes.
52 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
53 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
54 be threadsafe...).
55 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
56 but stateful semantics.
57 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
58 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
59
603.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
61 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
62 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
63 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
64 (EXPERIMENTAL).
65 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
66 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
67 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
68 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
69
703.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
71 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
72 it by default.
73 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
74 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
75 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
76 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
77 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
78 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
79 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
80 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
81 performance.
82
833.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
84 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
85 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
86
873.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
88 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
89 them without asking.
90
913.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
92 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
93 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
94 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
95 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
96 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
97 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
98
993.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
100 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
101 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
102 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
103 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
104 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
105 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
106 obsolete platforms.
107
1083.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
109 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
110 but was rather flaky in practise.
111 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
112 it was reused.
113 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
114 in cede_notself.
115
1163.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
117 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
118 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
119 documented and - hopefully - improved.
120 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
121 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
122 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
123 that could errronously trigger.
124 - fix various large and small memleaks.
125 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
126 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
127 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
128 - added Coro::guard function.
129 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
130 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
131 and 128k coros with async_pool).
132 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
133
1343.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
135 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
136 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
137 - simplify configuration for users.
138 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
139 their coro replacements.
140
1413.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
142 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
143 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
144 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
145 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
146 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
147 - save/restore tainted status.
148 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
149
1503.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
151 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
152 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
153 - give a better error message on deadlock.
154 - document Coro::nready.
155 - enhanced testsuite.
156
1573.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
158 - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
159
1603.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
161 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
162 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
163 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
164 pool (size currently hardcoded).
165 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
166 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
167 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
168 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
169 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
170 check for changed watchers.
171 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
172 per event.
173 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
174 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
175 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
176 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
177 some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
178 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
179 directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
180 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
181 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
182 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
183 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
184 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
185 - updated to newest libcoro.
186 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
187 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
188 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
189 and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
190 if somebody asks for it :)
191 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
192 spuriously without the event having happened.
193
1942.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
195 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
196 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
197 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
198 make LWP non-blocking.
199 - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
200 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
201 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
202 - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
203 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
204 - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
205 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
206 by LWP(!!).
207 - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
208 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
209 kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
210 did already.
211
2122.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
213 - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
214 zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
215 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
216 (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
217 - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
218 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
219 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
220 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
221
2222.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
223 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
224
2251.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
226
2271.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
228 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
229 mark & sweep gc run.
230 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
231
2321.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
233 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
234 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
235
2361.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
237 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
238 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
239 wrong package.
240 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
241 perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
242 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
243 normally uses.
244 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
245
2461.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
247 - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
248
2491.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
250 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
251 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
252 - strict'ify some modules.
253 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
254 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
255 - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
256
2571.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
258 - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
259 when 'l'inux method was used.
260
2611.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
262 - some portability fixes/workarounds.
263
2641.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
265 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
266 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
267 Coro::State::flush method.
268 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
269
2701.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
271 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
272 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
273 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
274 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
275 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
276
2771.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
278 - change of contact address.
279
2801.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
281 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
282 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
283
2841.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
285 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
286 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
287 padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
288
2890.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
290 - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
291
2920.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
293 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
294 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
295 as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
296 Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
297 between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
298 fixable).
299 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
300
3010.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
4 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much 302 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
5 faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV. 303 faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
6 - a memleak with (real) closures remains. 304 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
7 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after 305 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
8 observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte 306 observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
9 of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in 307 of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
10 pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap). 308 pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
309 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
310 - fix for threaded perl.
11 311
120.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003 3120.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
13 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid 313 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
14 memory leaks. 314 memory leaks.
15 - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(. 315 - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.

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