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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: should explore PerlIO::via::CoroCede and PerlIO::via::CoroAIO.
6
7 TODO: eg/event
8 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
9 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
10 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
11 (EXPERIMENTAL).
12 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
13 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
14 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
15 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
16
17 3.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
18 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
19 it by default.
20 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
21 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
22 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
23 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
24 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
25 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
26 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
27 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
28 performance.
29
30 3.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
31 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
32 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
33
34 3.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
35 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
36 them without asking.
37
38 3.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
39 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
40 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
41 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
42 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
43 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
44 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
45
46 3.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
47 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
48 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
49 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
50 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
51 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
52 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
53 obsolete platforms.
54
55 3.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
56 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
57 but was rather flaky in practise.
58 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
59 it was reused.
60 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
61 in cede_notself.
62
63 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
64 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
65 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
66 documented and - hopefully - improved.
67 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
68 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
69 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
70 that could errronously trigger.
71 - fix various large and small memleaks.
72 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
73 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
74 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
75 - added Coro::guard function.
76 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
77 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
78 and 128k coros with async_pool).
79 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
80
81 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
82 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
83 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
84 - simplify configuration for users.
85 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
86 their coro replacements.
87
88 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
89 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
90 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
91 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
92 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
93 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
94 - save/restore tainted status.
95 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
96
97 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
98 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
99 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
100 - give a better error message on deadlock.
101 - document Coro::nready.
102 - enhanced testsuite.
103
104 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
105 - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
106
107 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
108 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
109 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
110 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
111 pool (size currently hardcoded).
112 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
113 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
114 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
115 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
116 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
117 check for changed watchers.
118 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
119 per event.
120 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
121 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
122 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
123 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
124 some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
125 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
126 directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
127 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
128 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
129 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
130 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
131 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
132 - updated to newest libcoro.
133 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
134 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
135 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
136 and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
137 if somebody asks for it :)
138 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
139 spuriously without the event having happened.
140
141 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
142 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
143 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
144 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
145 make LWP non-blocking.
146 - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
147 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
148 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
149 - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
150 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
151 - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
152 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
153 by LWP(!!).
154 - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
155 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
156 kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
157 did already.
158
159 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
160 - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
161 zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
162 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
163 (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
164 - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
165 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
166 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
167 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
168
169 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
170 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
171
172 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
173
174 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
175 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
176 mark & sweep gc run.
177 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
178
179 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
180 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
181 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
182
183 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
184 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
185 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
186 wrong package.
187 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
188 perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
189 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
190 normally uses.
191 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
192
193 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
194 - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
195
196 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
197 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
198 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
199 - strict'ify some modules.
200 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
201 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
202 - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
203
204 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
205 - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
206 when 'l'inux method was used.
207
208 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
209 - some portability fixes/workarounds.
210
211 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
212 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
213 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
214 Coro::State::flush method.
215 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
216
217 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
218 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
219 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
220 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
221 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
222 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
223
224 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
225 - change of contact address.
226
227 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
228 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
229 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
230
231 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
232 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
233 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
234 padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
235
236 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
237 - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
238
239 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
240 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
241 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
242 as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
243 Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
244 between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
245 fixable).
246 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
247
248 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
249 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
250 faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
251 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
252 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
253 observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
254 of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
255 pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
256 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
257 - fix for threaded perl.
258
259 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
260 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
261 memory leaks.
262 - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
263 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
264 hopefully ignoring it "just works".
265
266 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
267 - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
268 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
269
270 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
271 - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
272 of new features.
273 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
274 Highly correct stuff, that is...
275 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
276 the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
277
278 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
279 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
280 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
281 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
282 so preselect it.
283
284 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
285 - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
286 on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
287
288 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
289 - added a README.linux-glibc.
290 - new module Coro::Select.
291 - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
292 (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
293 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
294
295 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
296 - made lazy context switching the default.
297 - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
298 was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
299 - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
300 - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
301
302 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
303 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
304 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
305 - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
306 ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
307 - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
308 of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
309
310 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
311 - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
312 - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
313 could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
314
315 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
316 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
317 (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
318 without Event, which freezes).
319
320 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
321 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
322
323 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
324 - some tests for Event.
325 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
326 and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
327 new ones.
328 - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
329 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
330
331 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
332 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
333 patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
334 - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
335
336 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
337 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
338 could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
339 error.
340 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
341 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
342 - implemented terminate with args + join.
343
344 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
345 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
346 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
347 in various modules.
348 - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
349 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
350
351 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
352 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
353 inside Coro::Handle.
354 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
355 speed reasons.
356 - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
357 sjlj and ucontext should now work.
358 - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
359 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
360 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
361 - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
362 under some circumstances.
363 - other bugfixes.
364
365 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
366 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
367 - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
368 - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
369 - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
370 - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
371 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
372 syntax.
373 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
374 - new simple priority system.
375 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
376 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
377
378 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
379 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
380 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
381 (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
382 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
383 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
384 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
385 "Callback called exit" messages).
386 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
387 - much better Coro::Socket support.
388
389 0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
390 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
391 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
392 should work well in practise ;)
393 - added Coro::RWLock.
394 - Coro::Specific now works.
395
396 0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
397 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
398 - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
399 - new module Coro::Socket.
400
401 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
402 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
403 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
404 for yield.
405 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
406 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
407 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
408 perl-5.6.
409 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
410 - the idle process is now overriden
411 by default in Coro::Event.
412 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
413 - canceling events now works in all cases.
414 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
415 - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
416 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
417 non-blocking i/o.
418 - performance tuning.
419
420 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
421 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
422 - add Coro::State::flush function.
423 - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
424 - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
425 - continuations have a saner syntax.
426 - no more memleaks.
427
428 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
429 - release candidate 1 ;)
430 - slightly nicer code.
431 - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
432
433 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
434 - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
435 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
436 see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
437 chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
438 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
439 - Coro::Event now works (haha).
440
441 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
442 - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
443 - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
444
445 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
446 - @_ is now properly localized.
447 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
448 - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
449 - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
450 coroutine-specific vars.
451 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
452
453 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
454 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
455 - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
456 - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
457 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
458 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
459 model. Still crude and subject to change.
460 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
461
462 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
463 - implemented "async" attribute.
464 - $_ and $@ are now localized.
465 - added Coro::Channel.
466 - more testcases, still no docs.
467
468 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
469 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
470