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Revision: 1.193
Committed: Fri Jan 5 16:55:01 2007 UTC (17 years, 4 months ago) by root
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1 Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2
3 TODO: better (earlier) error messages on broken transfer's
4 TODO: destroy gets only called on cancel: fix(?)
5
6 3.3
7 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
8 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
9 documented and - hopefully - improved.
10 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
11 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
12 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
13 that could errronously trigger.
14 - fix various large and small memleaks.
15 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
16 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
17 - added Coro::guard function.
18 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
19 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
20 and 128k coros with async_pool).
21
22 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
23 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
24 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
25 - simplify configuration for users.
26 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
27 their coro replacements.
28
29 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
30 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
31 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
32 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
33 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
34 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
35 - save/restore tainted status.
36 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
37
38 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
39 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
40 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
41 - give a better error message on deadlock.
42 - document Coro::nready.
43 - enhanced testsuite.
44
45 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
46 - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
47
48 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
49 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
50 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
51 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
52 pool (size currently hardcoded).
53 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
54 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
55 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
56 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
57 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
58 check for changed watchers.
59 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
60 per event.
61 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
62 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
63 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
64 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
65 some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
66 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
67 directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
68 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
69 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
70 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
71 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
72 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
73 - updated to newest libcoro.
74 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
75 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
76 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
77 and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
78 if somebody asks for it :)
79 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
80 spuriously without the event having happened.
81
82 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
83 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
84 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
85 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
86 make LWP non-blocking.
87 - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
88 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
89 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
90 - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
91 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
92 - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
93 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
94 by LWP(!!).
95 - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
96 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
97 kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
98 did already.
99
100 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
101 - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
102 zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
103 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
104 (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
105 - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
106 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
107 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
108 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
109
110 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
111 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
112
113 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
114
115 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
116 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
117 mark & sweep gc run.
118 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
119
120 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
121 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
123
124 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
125 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
126 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
127 wrong package.
128 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
129 perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
130 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
131 normally uses.
132 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
133
134 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
135 - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
136
137 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
138 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
139 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
140 - strict'ify some modules.
141 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
142 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
143 - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
144
145 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
146 - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
147 when 'l'inux method was used.
148
149 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
150 - some portability fixes/workarounds.
151
152 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
153 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
154 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
155 Coro::State::flush method.
156 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
157
158 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
159 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
160 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
161 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
162 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
163 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
164
165 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
166 - change of contact address.
167
168 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
169 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
170 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
171
172 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
173 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
174 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
175 padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
176
177 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
178 - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
179
180 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
181 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
182 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
183 as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
184 Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
185 between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
186 fixable).
187 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
188
189 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
190 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
191 faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
192 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
193 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
194 observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
195 of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
196 pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
197 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
198 - fix for threaded perl.
199
200 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
201 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
202 memory leaks.
203 - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
204 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
205 hopefully ignoring it "just works".
206
207 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
208 - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
209 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
210
211 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
212 - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
213 of new features.
214 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
215 Highly correct stuff, that is...
216 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
217 the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
218
219 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
220 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
221 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
222 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
223 so preselect it.
224
225 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
226 - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
227 on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
228
229 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
230 - added a README.linux-glibc.
231 - new module Coro::Select.
232 - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
233 (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
234 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
235
236 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
237 - made lazy context switching the default.
238 - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
239 was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
240 - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
241 - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
242
243 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
244 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
245 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
246 - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
247 ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
248 - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
249 of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
250
251 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
252 - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
253 - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
254 could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
255
256 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
257 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
258 (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
259 without Event, which freezes).
260
261 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
262 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
263
264 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
265 - some tests for Event.
266 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
267 and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
268 new ones.
269 - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
270 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
271
272 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
273 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
274 patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
275 - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
276
277 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
278 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
279 could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
280 error.
281 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
282 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
283 - implemented terminate with args + join.
284
285 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
286 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
287 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
288 in various modules.
289 - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
290 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
291
292 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
293 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
294 inside Coro::Handle.
295 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
296 speed reasons.
297 - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
298 sjlj and ucontext should now work.
299 - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
300 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
301 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
302 - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
303 under some circumstances.
304 - other bugfixes.
305
306 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
307 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
308 - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
309 - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
310 - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
311 - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
312 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
313 syntax.
314 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
315 - new simple priority system.
316 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
317 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
318
319 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
320 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
321 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
322 (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
323 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
324 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
325 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
326 "Callback called exit" messages).
327 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
328 - much better Coro::Socket support.
329
330 0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
331 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
332 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
333 should work well in practise ;)
334 - added Coro::RWLock.
335 - Coro::Specific now works.
336
337 0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
338 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
339 - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
340 - new module Coro::Socket.
341
342 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
343 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
344 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
345 for yield.
346 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
347 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
348 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
349 perl-5.6.
350 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
351 - the idle process is now overriden
352 by default in Coro::Event.
353 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
354 - canceling events now works in all cases.
355 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
356 - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
357 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
358 non-blocking i/o.
359 - performance tuning.
360
361 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
362 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
363 - add Coro::State::flush function.
364 - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
365 - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
366 - continuations have a saner syntax.
367 - no more memleaks.
368
369 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
370 - release candidate 1 ;)
371 - slightly nicer code.
372 - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
373
374 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
375 - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
376 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
377 see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
378 chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
379 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
380 - Coro::Event now works (haha).
381
382 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
383 - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
384 - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
385
386 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
387 - @_ is now properly localized.
388 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
389 - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
390 - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
391 coroutine-specific vars.
392 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
393
394 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
395 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
396 - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
397 - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
398 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
399 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
400 model. Still crude and subject to change.
401 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
402
403 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
404 - implemented "async" attribute.
405 - $_ and $@ are now localized.
406 - added Coro::Channel.
407 - more testcases, still no docs.
408
409 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
410 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
411