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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's
5 actor model (which is cool in a lot of important aspects (failures!),
6 but very lacking in others (higher level ipc)).
7
8 4.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
9 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
10 - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
11 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
12 - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
13 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
14 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
15 use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
16
17 4.6 Sat Apr 26 10:05:14 CEST 2008
18 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported
19 by the Coro module. It was a mistake to have it in the first place.
20 - (experimental) support for activestate perl 5.10 (method "w").
21 - (experimental) support for strawberry perl (method "a").
22 - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to,
23 actual impact unknown.
24
25 4.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008
26 - make it compile again on 5.8.
27
28 4.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008
29 - I did it twice! (see 4.49).
30
31 4.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008
32 - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they
33 were compiled on 5.8 only.
34
35 4.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
36 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
37 the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
38 (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
39 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
40
41 4.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
42 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
43 and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
44 leading to crashes and worse.
45 - document force_cctx.
46
47 4.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
48 - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
49 to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
50
51 4.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
52 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
53 downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
54 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
55 (also add testcase).
56 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
57 apparently having loads of fun with that).
58 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
59
60 4.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
61 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
62 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
63 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
64 - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
65 Andreas König.
66
67 4.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
68 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
69 "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
70
71 4.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
72 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
73 trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
74
75 4.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
76 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
77 from longmess and also skips the innermost
78 stackframes, giving more useufl output.
79 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
80 at a <1% speed hit.
81 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
82 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
83
84 4.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
85 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
86
87 4.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
88 - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
89
90 4.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
91 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
92 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
93 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
94
95 4.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
96 - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
97
98 4.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
99 - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
100 when the stack changed.
101 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
102 (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
103 if available.
104 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
105 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
106 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
107
108 4.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
109 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
110 and Coro::Handle.
111
112 4.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
113 - fix a spurious memory read.
114 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
115
116 4.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
117 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
118 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
119 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
120 - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
121 does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
122 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
123 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
124 directly supported by Coro.
125 - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
126 stuff in Coro::Util.
127 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
128 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
129 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
130
131 4.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
132 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
133 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
134 $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
135 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
136 instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
137 This also catches recursive invocations.
138 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
139
140 4.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
141 - port to threaded perls.
142
143 4.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
144 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
145 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
146 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
147 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
148 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
149 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
150 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
151 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
152 speeds up context switching a bit.
153 - further tune default stack sizes.
154 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
155 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
156 resulting in races between coroutines.
157 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
158 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
159 an unrelated coroutine.
160 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
161 more detail in Coro::State.
162 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
163 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
164 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
165 invalidating pointers.
166
167 4.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
168 - added Coro::throw method.
169 - minor code cleanups.
170
171 4.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
172 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
173 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
174 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
175 or use tracing).
176 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
177 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
178 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
179
180 4.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
181 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
182 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
183
184 4.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
185 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
186 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
187 debugging, tracing and much more.
188 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
189 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
190 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
191 flags.
192 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
193 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
194 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
195 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
196 - added Coro::killall.
197 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
198 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
199 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
200 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
201 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
202 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
203 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
204 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
205 - many minor tweaks.
206
207 3.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
208 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
209
210 3.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
211 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
212 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
213
214 3.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
215 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
216 pst's sometimes.
217 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
218 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
219 be threadsafe...).
220 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
221 but stateful semantics.
222 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
223 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
224
225 3.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
226 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
227 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
228 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
229 (EXPERIMENTAL).
230 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
231 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
232 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
233 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
234
235 3.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
236 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
237 it by default.
238 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
239 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
240 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
241 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
242 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
243 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
244 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
245 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
246 performance.
247
248 3.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
249 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
250 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
251
252 3.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
253 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
254 them without asking.
255
256 3.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
257 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
258 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
259 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
260 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
261 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
262 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
263
264 3.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
265 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
266 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
267 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
268 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
269 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
270 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
271 obsolete platforms.
272
273 3.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
274 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
275 but was rather flaky in practise.
276 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
277 it was reused.
278 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
279 in cede_notself.
280
281 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
282 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
283 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
284 documented and - hopefully - improved.
285 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
286 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
287 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
288 that could errronously trigger.
289 - fix various large and small memleaks.
290 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
291 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
292 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
293 - added Coro::guard function.
294 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
295 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
296 and 128k coros with async_pool).
297 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
298
299 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
300 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
301 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
302 - simplify configuration for users.
303 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
304 their coro replacements.
305
306 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
307 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
308 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
309 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
310 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
311 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
312 - save/restore tainted status.
313 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
314
315 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
316 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
317 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
318 - give a better error message on deadlock.
319 - document Coro::nready.
320 - enhanced testsuite.
321
322 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
323 - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
324
325 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
326 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
327 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
328 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
329 pool (size currently hardcoded).
330 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
331 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
332 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
333 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
334 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
335 check for changed watchers.
336 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
337 per event.
338 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
339 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
340 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
341 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
342 some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
343 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
344 directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
345 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
346 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
347 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
348 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
349 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
350 - updated to newest libcoro.
351 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
352 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
353 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
354 and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
355 if somebody asks for it :)
356 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
357 spuriously without the event having happened.
358
359 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
360 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
361 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
362 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
363 make LWP non-blocking.
364 - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
365 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
366 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
367 - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
368 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
369 - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
370 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
371 by LWP(!!).
372 - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
373 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
374 kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
375 did already.
376
377 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
378 - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
379 zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
380 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
381 (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
382 - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
383 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
384 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
385 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
386
387 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
388 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
389
390 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
391
392 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
393 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
394 mark & sweep gc run.
395 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
396
397 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
398 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
399 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
400
401 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
402 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
403 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
404 wrong package.
405 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
406 perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
407 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
408 normally uses.
409 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
410
411 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
412 - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
413
414 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
415 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
416 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
417 - strict'ify some modules.
418 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
419 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
420 - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
421
422 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
423 - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
424 when 'l'inux method was used.
425
426 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
427 - some portability fixes/workarounds.
428
429 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
430 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
431 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
432 Coro::State::flush method.
433 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
434
435 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
436 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
437 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
438 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
439 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
440 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
441
442 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
443 - change of contact address.
444
445 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
446 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
447 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
448
449 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
450 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
451 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
452 padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
453
454 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
455 - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
456
457 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
458 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
459 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
460 as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
461 Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
462 between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
463 fixable).
464 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
465
466 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
467 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
468 faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
469 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
470 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
471 observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
472 of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
473 pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
474 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
475 - fix for threaded perl.
476
477 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
478 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
479 memory leaks.
480 - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
481 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
482 hopefully ignoring it "just works".
483
484 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
485 - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
486 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
487
488 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
489 - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
490 of new features.
491 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
492 Highly correct stuff, that is...
493 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
494 the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
495
496 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
497 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
498 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
499 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
500 so preselect it.
501
502 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
503 - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
504 on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
505
506 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
507 - added a README.linux-glibc.
508 - new module Coro::Select.
509 - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
510 (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
511 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
512
513 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
514 - made lazy context switching the default.
515 - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
516 was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
517 - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
518 - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
519
520 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
521 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
522 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
523 - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
524 ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
525 - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
526 of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
527
528 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
529 - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
530 - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
531 could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
532
533 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
534 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
535 (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
536 without Event, which freezes).
537
538 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
539 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
540
541 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
542 - some tests for Event.
543 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
544 and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
545 new ones.
546 - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
547 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
548
549 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
550 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
551 patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
552 - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
553
554 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
555 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
556 could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
557 error.
558 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
559 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
560 - implemented terminate with args + join.
561
562 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
563 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
564 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
565 in various modules.
566 - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
567 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
568
569 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
570 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
571 inside Coro::Handle.
572 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
573 speed reasons.
574 - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
575 sjlj and ucontext should now work.
576 - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
577 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
578 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
579 - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
580 under some circumstances.
581 - other bugfixes.
582
583 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
584 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
585 - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
586 - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
587 - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
588 - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
589 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
590 syntax.
591 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
592 - new simple priority system.
593 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
594 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
595
596 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
597 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
598 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
599 (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
600 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
601 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
602 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
603 "Callback called exit" messages).
604 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
605 - much better Coro::Socket support.
606
607 0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
608 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
609 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
610 should work well in practise ;)
611 - added Coro::RWLock.
612 - Coro::Specific now works.
613
614 0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
615 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
616 - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
617 - new module Coro::Socket.
618
619 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
620 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
621 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
622 for yield.
623 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
624 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
625 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
626 perl-5.6.
627 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
628 - the idle process is now overriden
629 by default in Coro::Event.
630 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
631 - canceling events now works in all cases.
632 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
633 - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
634 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
635 non-blocking i/o.
636 - performance tuning.
637
638 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
639 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
640 - add Coro::State::flush function.
641 - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
642 - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
643 - continuations have a saner syntax.
644 - no more memleaks.
645
646 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
647 - release candidate 1 ;)
648 - slightly nicer code.
649 - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
650
651 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
652 - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
653 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
654 see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
655 chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
656 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
657 - Coro::Event now works (haha).
658
659 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
660 - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
661 - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
662
663 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
664 - @_ is now properly localized.
665 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
666 - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
667 - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
668 coroutine-specific vars.
669 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
670
671 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
672 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
673 - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
674 - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
675 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
676 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
677 model. Still crude and subject to change.
678 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
679
680 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
681 - implemented "async" attribute.
682 - $_ and $@ are now localized.
683 - added Coro::Channel.
684 - more testcases, still no docs.
685
686 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
687 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
688