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Revision: 1.201
Committed: Fri Jan 19 20:53:21 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 TODO: fast reloads in cf cause segfaults (coro_state_free->destroy->crash)
6
7 3.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
8 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
9 but was rather flaky in practise.
10 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
11 it was reused.
12 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
13 in cede_notself.
14
15 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
16 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
17 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
18 documented and - hopefully - improved.
19 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
20 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
21 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
22 that could errronously trigger.
23 - fix various large and small memleaks.
24 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
25 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
26 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
27 - added Coro::guard function.
28 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
29 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
30 and 128k coros with async_pool).
31 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
32
33 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
34 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
35 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
36 - simplify configuration for users.
37 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
38 their coro replacements.
39
40 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
41 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
42 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
43 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
44 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
45 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
46 - save/restore tainted status.
47 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
48
49 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
50 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
51 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
52 - give a better error message on deadlock.
53 - document Coro::nready.
54 - enhanced testsuite.
55
56 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
57 - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
58
59 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
60 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
61 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
62 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
63 pool (size currently hardcoded).
64 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
65 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
66 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
67 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
68 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
69 check for changed watchers.
70 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
71 per event.
72 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
73 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
74 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
75 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
76 some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
77 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
78 directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
79 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
80 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
81 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
82 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
83 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
84 - updated to newest libcoro.
85 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
86 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
87 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
88 and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
89 if somebody asks for it :)
90 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
91 spuriously without the event having happened.
92
93 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
94 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
95 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
96 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
97 make LWP non-blocking.
98 - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
99 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
100 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
101 - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
102 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
103 - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
104 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
105 by LWP(!!).
106 - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
107 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
108 kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
109 did already.
110
111 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
112 - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
113 zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
114 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
115 (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
116 - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
117 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
118 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
119 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
120
121 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
122 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
123
124 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
125
126 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
127 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
128 mark & sweep gc run.
129 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
130
131 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
132 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
133 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
134
135 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
136 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
137 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
138 wrong package.
139 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
140 perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
141 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
142 normally uses.
143 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
144
145 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
146 - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
147
148 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
149 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
150 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
151 - strict'ify some modules.
152 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
153 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
154 - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
155
156 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
157 - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
158 when 'l'inux method was used.
159
160 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
161 - some portability fixes/workarounds.
162
163 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
164 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
165 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
166 Coro::State::flush method.
167 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
168
169 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
170 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
171 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
172 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
173 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
174 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
175
176 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
177 - change of contact address.
178
179 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
180 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
181 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
182
183 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
184 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
185 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
186 padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
187
188 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
189 - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
190
191 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
192 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
193 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
194 as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
195 Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
196 between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
197 fixable).
198 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
199
200 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
201 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
202 faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
203 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
204 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
205 observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
206 of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
207 pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
208 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
209 - fix for threaded perl.
210
211 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
212 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
213 memory leaks.
214 - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
215 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
216 hopefully ignoring it "just works".
217
218 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
219 - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
220 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
221
222 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
223 - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
224 of new features.
225 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
226 Highly correct stuff, that is...
227 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
228 the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
229
230 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
231 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
232 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
233 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
234 so preselect it.
235
236 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
237 - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
238 on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
239
240 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
241 - added a README.linux-glibc.
242 - new module Coro::Select.
243 - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
244 (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
245 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
246
247 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
248 - made lazy context switching the default.
249 - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
250 was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
251 - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
252 - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
253
254 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
255 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
256 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
257 - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
258 ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
259 - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
260 of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
261
262 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
263 - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
264 - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
265 could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
266
267 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
268 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
269 (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
270 without Event, which freezes).
271
272 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
273 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
274
275 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
276 - some tests for Event.
277 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
278 and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
279 new ones.
280 - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
281 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
282
283 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
284 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
285 patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
286 - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
287
288 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
289 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
290 could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
291 error.
292 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
293 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
294 - implemented terminate with args + join.
295
296 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
297 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
298 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
299 in various modules.
300 - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
301 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
302
303 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
304 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
305 inside Coro::Handle.
306 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
307 speed reasons.
308 - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
309 sjlj and ucontext should now work.
310 - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
311 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
312 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
313 - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
314 under some circumstances.
315 - other bugfixes.
316
317 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
318 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
319 - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
320 - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
321 - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
322 - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
323 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
324 syntax.
325 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
326 - new simple priority system.
327 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
328 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
329
330 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
331 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
332 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
333 (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
334 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
335 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
336 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
337 "Callback called exit" messages).
338 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
339 - much better Coro::Socket support.
340
341 0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
342 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
343 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
344 should work well in practise ;)
345 - added Coro::RWLock.
346 - Coro::Specific now works.
347
348 0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
349 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
350 - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
351 - new module Coro::Socket.
352
353 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
354 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
355 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
356 for yield.
357 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
358 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
359 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
360 perl-5.6.
361 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
362 - the idle process is now overriden
363 by default in Coro::Event.
364 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
365 - canceling events now works in all cases.
366 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
367 - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
368 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
369 non-blocking i/o.
370 - performance tuning.
371
372 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
373 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
374 - add Coro::State::flush function.
375 - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
376 - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
377 - continuations have a saner syntax.
378 - no more memleaks.
379
380 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
381 - release candidate 1 ;)
382 - slightly nicer code.
383 - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
384
385 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
386 - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
387 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
388 see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
389 chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
390 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
391 - Coro::Event now works (haha).
392
393 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
394 - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
395 - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
396
397 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
398 - @_ is now properly localized.
399 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
400 - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
401 - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
402 coroutine-specific vars.
403 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
404
405 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
406 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
407 - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
408 - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
409 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
410 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
411 model. Still crude and subject to change.
412 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
413
414 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
415 - implemented "async" attribute.
416 - $_ and $@ are now localized.
417 - added Coro::Channel.
418 - more testcases, still no docs.
419
420 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
421 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
422