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Revision: 1.162
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1 Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2
3 3.0
4 - reimplement a new stack sharing algorithm.
5 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
6 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
7 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
8 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
9 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
10 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
11 directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
12 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
13 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
14 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
15 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
16 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
17 - updated to newest libcoro.
18 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
19 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
20
21 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
22 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
23 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
24 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
25 make LWP non-blocking.
26 - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
27 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
28 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
29 - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
30 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
31 - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
32 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
33 by LWP(!!).
34 - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
35 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
36 kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
37 did already.
38
39 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
40 - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
41 zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
42 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
43 (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
44 - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
45 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
46 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
47 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
48
49 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
50 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
51
52 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
53
54 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
55 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
56 mark & sweep gc run.
57 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
58
59 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
60 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
61 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
62
63 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
64 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
65 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
66 wrong package.
67 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
68 perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
69 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
70 normally uses.
71 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
72
73 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
74 - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
75
76 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
77 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
78 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
79 - strict'ify some modules.
80 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
81 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
82 - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
83
84 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
85 - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
86 when 'l'inux method was used.
87
88 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
89 - some portability fixes/workarounds.
90
91 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
92 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
93 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
94 Coro::State::flush method.
95 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
96
97 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
98 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
99 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
100 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
101 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
102 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
103
104 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
105 - change of contact address.
106
107 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
108 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
110
111 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
112 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
113 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
114 padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
115
116 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
117 - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
118
119 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
120 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
121 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
122 as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
123 Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
124 between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
125 fixable).
126 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
127
128 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
129 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
130 faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
131 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
132 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
133 observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
134 of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
135 pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
136 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
137 - fix for threaded perl.
138
139 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
140 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
141 memory leaks.
142 - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
143 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
144 hopefully ignoring it "just works".
145
146 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
147 - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
148 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
149
150 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
151 - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
152 of new features.
153 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
154 Highly correct stuff, that is...
155 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
156 the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
157
158 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
159 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
160 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
161 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
162 so preselect it.
163
164 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
165 - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
166 on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
167
168 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
169 - added a README.linux-glibc.
170 - new module Coro::Select.
171 - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
172 (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
173 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
174
175 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
176 - made lazy context switching the default.
177 - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
178 was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
179 - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
180 - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
181
182 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
183 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
184 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
185 - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
186 ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
187 - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
188 of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
189
190 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
191 - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
192 - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
193 could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
194
195 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
196 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
197 (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
198 without Event, which freezes).
199
200 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
201 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
202
203 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
204 - some tests for Event.
205 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
206 and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
207 new ones.
208 - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
209 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
210
211 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
212 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
213 patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
214 - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
215
216 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
217 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
218 could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
219 error.
220 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
221 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
222 - implemented terminate with args + join.
223
224 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
225 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
226 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
227 in various modules.
228 - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
229 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
230
231 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
232 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
233 inside Coro::Handle.
234 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
235 speed reasons.
236 - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
237 sjlj and ucontext should now work.
238 - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
239 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
240 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
241 - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
242 under some circumstances.
243 - other bugfixes.
244
245 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
246 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
247 - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
248 - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
249 - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
250 - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
251 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
252 syntax.
253 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
254 - new simple priority system.
255 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
256 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
257
258 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
259 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
260 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
261 (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
262 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
263 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
264 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
265 "Callback called exit" messages).
266 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
267 - much better Coro::Socket support.
268
269 0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
270 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
271 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
272 should work well in practise ;)
273 - added Coro::RWLock.
274 - Coro::Specific now works.
275
276 0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
277 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
278 - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
279 - new module Coro::Socket.
280
281 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
282 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
283 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
284 for yield.
285 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
286 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
287 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
288 perl-5.6.
289 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
290 - the idle process is now overriden
291 by default in Coro::Event.
292 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
293 - canceling events now works in all cases.
294 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
295 - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
296 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
297 non-blocking i/o.
298 - performance tuning.
299
300 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
301 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
302 - add Coro::State::flush function.
303 - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
304 - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
305 - continuations have a saner syntax.
306 - no more memleaks.
307
308 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
309 - release candidate 1 ;)
310 - slightly nicer code.
311 - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
312
313 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
314 - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
315 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
316 see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
317 chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
318 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
319 - Coro::Event now works (haha).
320
321 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
322 - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
323 - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
324
325 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
326 - @_ is now properly localized.
327 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
328 - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
329 - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
330 coroutine-specific vars.
331 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
332
333 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
334 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
335 - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
336 - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
337 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
338 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
339 model. Still crude and subject to change.
340 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
341
342 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
343 - implemented "async" attribute.
344 - $_ and $@ are now localized.
345 - added Coro::Channel.
346 - more testcases, still no docs.
347
348 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
349 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
350