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1 Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2
3 TODO: should explore PerlIO::via::CoroCede and PerlIO::via::CoroAIO.
4 TODO: 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
8 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
9
10 4.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
11 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
12 "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
13
14 4.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
15 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
16 trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
17
18 4.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
19 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
20 from longmess and also skips the innermost
21 stackframes, giving more useufl output.
22 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
23 at a <1% speed hit.
24 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
25 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
26
27 4.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
28 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
29
30 4.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
31 - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
32
33 4.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
34 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
35 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
36 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
37
38 4.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
39 - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
40
41 4.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
42 - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
43 when the stack changed.
44 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
45 (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
46 if available.
47 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
48 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
49 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
50
51 4.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
52 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
53 and Coro::Handle.
54
55 4.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
56 - fix a spurious memory read.
57 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
58
59 4.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
60 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
61 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
62 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
63 - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
64 does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
65 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
66 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
67 directly supported by Coro.
68 - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
69 stuff in Coro::Util.
70 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
71 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
72 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
73
74 4.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
75 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
76 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
77 $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
78 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
79 instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
80 This also catches recursive invocations.
81 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
82
83 4.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
84 - port to threaded perls.
85
86 4.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
87 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
88 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
89 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
90 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
91 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
92 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
93 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
94 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
95 speeds up context switching a bit.
96 - further tune default stack sizes.
97 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
98 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
99 resulting in races between coroutines.
100 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
101 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
102 an unrelated coroutine.
103 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
104 more detail in Coro::State.
105 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
106 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
107 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
108 invalidating pointers.
109
110 4.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
111 - added Coro::throw method.
112 - minor code cleanups.
113
114 4.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
115 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
116 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
117 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
118 or use tracing).
119 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
120 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
121 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
122
123 4.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
124 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
125 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
126
127 4.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
128 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
129 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
130 debugging, tracing and much more.
131 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
132 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
133 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
134 flags.
135 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
136 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
137 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
138 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
139 - added Coro::killall.
140 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
141 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
142 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
143 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
144 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
145 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
146 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
147 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
148 - many minor tweaks.
149
150 3.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
151 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
152
153 3.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
154 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
155 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
156
157 3.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
158 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
159 pst's sometimes.
160 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
161 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
162 be threadsafe...).
163 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
164 but stateful semantics.
165 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
166 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
167
168 3.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
169 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
170 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
171 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
172 (EXPERIMENTAL).
173 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
174 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
175 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
176 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
177
178 3.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
179 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
180 it by default.
181 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
182 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
183 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
184 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
185 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
186 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
187 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
188 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
189 performance.
190
191 3.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
192 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
193 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
194
195 3.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
196 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
197 them without asking.
198
199 3.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
200 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
201 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
202 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
203 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
204 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
205 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
206
207 3.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
208 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
209 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
210 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
211 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
212 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
213 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
214 obsolete platforms.
215
216 3.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
217 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
218 but was rather flaky in practise.
219 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
220 it was reused.
221 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
222 in cede_notself.
223
224 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
225 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
226 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
227 documented and - hopefully - improved.
228 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
229 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
230 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
231 that could errronously trigger.
232 - fix various large and small memleaks.
233 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
234 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
235 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
236 - added Coro::guard function.
237 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
238 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
239 and 128k coros with async_pool).
240 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
241
242 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
243 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
244 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
245 - simplify configuration for users.
246 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
247 their coro replacements.
248
249 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
250 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
251 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
252 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
253 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
254 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
255 - save/restore tainted status.
256 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
257
258 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
259 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
260 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
261 - give a better error message on deadlock.
262 - document Coro::nready.
263 - enhanced testsuite.
264
265 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
266 - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
267
268 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
269 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
270 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
271 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
272 pool (size currently hardcoded).
273 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
274 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
275 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
276 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
277 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
278 check for changed watchers.
279 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
280 per event.
281 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
282 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
283 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
284 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
285 some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
286 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
287 directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
288 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
289 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
290 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
291 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
292 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
293 - updated to newest libcoro.
294 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
295 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
296 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
297 and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
298 if somebody asks for it :)
299 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
300 spuriously without the event having happened.
301
302 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
303 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
304 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
305 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
306 make LWP non-blocking.
307 - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
308 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
309 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
310 - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
311 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
312 - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
313 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
314 by LWP(!!).
315 - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
316 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
317 kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
318 did already.
319
320 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
321 - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
322 zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
323 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
324 (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
325 - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
326 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
327 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
328 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
329
330 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
331 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
332
333 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
334
335 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
336 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
337 mark & sweep gc run.
338 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
339
340 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
341 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
342 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
343
344 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
345 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
346 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
347 wrong package.
348 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
349 perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
350 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
351 normally uses.
352 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
353
354 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
355 - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
356
357 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
358 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
359 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
360 - strict'ify some modules.
361 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
362 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
363 - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
364
365 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
366 - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
367 when 'l'inux method was used.
368
369 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
370 - some portability fixes/workarounds.
371
372 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
373 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
374 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
375 Coro::State::flush method.
376 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
377
378 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
379 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
380 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
381 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
382 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
383 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
384
385 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
386 - change of contact address.
387
388 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
389 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
390 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
391
392 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
393 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
394 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
395 padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
396
397 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
398 - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
399
400 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
401 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
402 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
403 as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
404 Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
405 between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
406 fixable).
407 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
408
409 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
410 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
411 faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
412 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
413 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
414 observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
415 of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
416 pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
417 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
418 - fix for threaded perl.
419
420 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
421 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
422 memory leaks.
423 - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
424 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
425 hopefully ignoring it "just works".
426
427 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
428 - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
429 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
430
431 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
432 - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
433 of new features.
434 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
435 Highly correct stuff, that is...
436 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
437 the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
438
439 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
440 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
441 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
442 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
443 so preselect it.
444
445 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
446 - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
447 on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
448
449 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
450 - added a README.linux-glibc.
451 - new module Coro::Select.
452 - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
453 (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
454 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
455
456 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
457 - made lazy context switching the default.
458 - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
459 was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
460 - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
461 - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
462
463 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
464 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
465 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
466 - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
467 ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
468 - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
469 of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
470
471 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
472 - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
473 - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
474 could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
475
476 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
477 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
478 (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
479 without Event, which freezes).
480
481 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
482 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
483
484 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
485 - some tests for Event.
486 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
487 and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
488 new ones.
489 - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
490 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
491
492 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
493 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
494 patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
495 - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
496
497 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
498 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
499 could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
500 error.
501 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
502 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
503 - implemented terminate with args + join.
504
505 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
506 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
507 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
508 in various modules.
509 - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
510 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
511
512 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
513 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
514 inside Coro::Handle.
515 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
516 speed reasons.
517 - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
518 sjlj and ucontext should now work.
519 - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
520 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
521 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
522 - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
523 under some circumstances.
524 - other bugfixes.
525
526 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
527 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
528 - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
529 - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
530 - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
531 - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
532 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
533 syntax.
534 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
535 - new simple priority system.
536 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
537 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
538
539 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
540 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
541 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
542 (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
543 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
544 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
545 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
546 "Callback called exit" messages).
547 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
548 - much better Coro::Socket support.
549
550 0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
551 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
552 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
553 should work well in practise ;)
554 - added Coro::RWLock.
555 - Coro::Specific now works.
556
557 0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
558 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
559 - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
560 - new module Coro::Socket.
561
562 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
563 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
564 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
565 for yield.
566 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
567 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
568 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
569 perl-5.6.
570 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
571 - the idle process is now overriden
572 by default in Coro::Event.
573 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
574 - canceling events now works in all cases.
575 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
576 - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
577 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
578 non-blocking i/o.
579 - performance tuning.
580
581 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
582 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
583 - add Coro::State::flush function.
584 - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
585 - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
586 - continuations have a saner syntax.
587 - no more memleaks.
588
589 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
590 - release candidate 1 ;)
591 - slightly nicer code.
592 - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
593
594 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
595 - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
596 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
597 see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
598 chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
599 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
600 - Coro::Event now works (haha).
601
602 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
603 - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
604 - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
605
606 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
607 - @_ is now properly localized.
608 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
609 - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
610 - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
611 coroutine-specific vars.
612 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
613
614 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
615 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
616 - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
617 - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
618 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
619 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
620 model. Still crude and subject to change.
621 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
622
623 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
624 - implemented "async" attribute.
625 - $_ and $@ are now localized.
626 - added Coro::Channel.
627 - more testcases, still no docs.
628
629 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
630 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
631