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Revision: 1.552
Committed: Mon Feb 21 13:38:02 2011 UTC (13 years, 2 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rel-5_371
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1 Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2
3 TODO: should explore PerlIO::coroaio (perl leaks like hell).
4 TODO: channel->maxsize(newsize)?
5 TODO: http://www.microsoft.com/msj/archive/s2ce.aspx
6
7 5.371 Mon Feb 21 14:36:08 CET 2011
8 - backport to windows process emulation code again.
9
10 5.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011
11 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
12 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
13 introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
14 - no longer use Time::HiRes if gettimeofday is available, which
15 saves quite a lot of memory.
16
17 5.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
18 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
19 Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
20 method call.
21 - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
22 - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
23 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
24 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
25
26 5.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
27 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
28 working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
29 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
30 with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
31
32 5.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
33 - port to the EV 4.0 API.
34 - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
35 out of the box.
36 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
37 so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
38 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
39
40 5.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
41 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
42 Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
43 Waldorf).
44 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
45
46 5.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
47 - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
48 (testcase by Marc Mims).
49 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
50 are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
51 functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
52 fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
53 with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
54 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
55 modules could have provided their own idle coro already
56 (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
57 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
58 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
59
60 5.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
61 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
62 together.
63 - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
64 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
65 the most common source of confusion.
66 - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
67 - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
68 older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
69 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
70
71 5.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
72 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
73 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
74 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
75 - new method $state->swap_sv.
76 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
77 after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
78 salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
79 were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
80 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
81 and maybe well enough for others to understand.
82 - use common::sense everywhere now.
83 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
84 - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
85
86 5.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
87 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
88 when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
89 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
90 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
91 setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
92 - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
93
94 5.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
95 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
96 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
97
98 5.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
99 - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
100 used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
101 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
102 not on demand.
103 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
104
105 5.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
106 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
107 when no threads had been readied between detecting
108 the event loop and actually running it.
109 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
110 of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
111 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
112 (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
113 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
114 and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
115 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
116 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
117 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
118 for hardcode select overriding.
119
120 5.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
121 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
122 Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
123 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
124
125 5.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
126 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
127 AnyEvent::Socket instead.
128 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
129 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
130 to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
131 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
132 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
133 reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
134 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
135 (Coro::State::enable_times).
136
137 5.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
138 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
139 as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
140 idle_upto).
141 - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
142 - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
143 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
144 avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
145 had already been freed.
146 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
147 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
148 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
149 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
150 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
151 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
152 Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
153 (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
154 - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
155 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
156 - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
157 (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
158
159 5.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
160 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
161 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
162 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
163 should support a prepare callback.
164
165 5.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
166 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
167 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
168 the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
169
170 5.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
171 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
172 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
173 spurious warnings.
174 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
175 - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
176 - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
177 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
178 - deprecate Coro::guard.
179 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
180 testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
181 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
182 - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
183 - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
184 when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
185 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
186 to avoid needless segfaults.
187
188 5.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
189 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
190 compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
191 openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
192 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
193 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
194 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
195 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
196 - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
197 destruction.
198 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
199 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
200 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
201 - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
202 pthreads fare better?).
203 - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
204
205 5.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
206 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
207 working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
208 it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
209
210 5.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
211 - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
212 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
213 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
214 and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
215 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
216 LWP data transfers.
217 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
218 correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
219 objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
220 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
221 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably
222 doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
223 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
224 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
225 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
226 do not have this method (and don't need it either).
227 - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
228 callbacks.
229 - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
230 others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
231 through the idle threads now.
232 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
233 - eg/event was pretty broken.
234 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
235
236 5.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
237 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
238 stability issues.
239 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
240 - removed timed_* functions - they were not being used anyways
241 and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
242 and were annoying to support anyways :)
243 - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem method instead.
244 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
245 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
246 ("Attempt to unreference...").
247 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
248 was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
249 would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where
250 it was available but waiters were still blocked).
251 - calling throw on a coroutine that is waiting for a semaphore will
252 no longer make it acquire the semaphore (and thus leak a count).
253 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported
254 anymore.
255 - new functions Coro::rouse_cb and Coro::rouse_wait for easier
256 conversion of callback-style to blocking-style.
257 - new methods $coro->schedule_to and ->cede_to, to specifically
258 schedule or cede to a specific coroutine.
259 - new function Coro::Semaphore::wait.
260 - use named constants in Coro::Channel (Richard Hundt).
261 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede,
262 transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but
263 more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of
264 entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from
265 those functions and atcually create new ones.
266 - take advantage of __builtin_frame_address on gcc.
267 - expose THX in coroapi (not sure whether this was a wise decision,
268 as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways).
269 - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes
270 it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS.
271 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a
272 factor of two.
273 - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a
274 factor of three.
275 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of
276 four and reduce its memory usage considerably.
277 - implement Coro::SemaphoreSet purely in terms of Coro::Semaphore,
278 for a nice speedup and vastly more correct behaviour. Also implement
279 a new method "sem" to get at the underlying semaphore object.
280 - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate
281 (in comparison) 20-40% speedup.
282 - used new SLF interface to reimplement Coro::Signal gaining
283 some unknown (because I was too lazy), but certain, speedup, and also
284 making signals reliable for the first time.
285 - used new SLF interface and other optimisations to speed up async_pool
286 by a factor of two. It also doesn't rely on perl's exception mechanism
287 to exit anymore. The overhead for terminating an async_pool, coro over
288 a normal async is now very small.
289 - sped up coroutine creation/destruction by 40%.
290 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years.
291 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
292 pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
293 - use new rouse functions to speed up and simplify Coro::BDB.
294 - make "prefer perl native functions" work with threaded perls.
295 - condense Coro::Debug ps output, hint at v and w flags.
296 - (libcoro) lots of minor cleanups and portability improvements.
297
298 4.914 Wed Nov 19 12:54:18 CET 2008
299 - fix a disastrous bug in the readline optimisation
300 introduced in 4.801.
301
302 4.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008
303 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
304 ("Attempt to unreference...").
305
306 4.912 Thu Nov 13 18:31:23 CET 2008
307 - minor cleanups.
308 - use much larger stacks on linux and perl < 5.8.8.
309 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server did not unlink the socket
310 when destroyed.
311
312 4.911 Tue Nov 11 04:26:17 CET 2008
313 - "port" to threaded perls.
314
315 4.91 Mon Nov 10 05:36:38 CET 2008
316 - the ->throw exception object no longer leaks.
317 - creating a new cctx leaked a scopestack entry (memleak).
318 - new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field
319 (unknown impact).
320 - calling ->throw on a not-yet-started coroutine should now work
321 instead of being ignored.
322 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
323 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
324 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
325
326 4.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008
327 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
328 - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
329 also speed it up considerably.
330 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
331 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
332 - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
333 - Coro::State::cctx_stacksize wasn't applied correctly.
334 - new function Coro::State::cctx_max_idle.
335 - the default max number of idle C contexts is now 4.
336 - (libcoro) try harder to get _setjmp/_longjmp.
337 - (libcoro) cleanup and extend the libcoro API to officially
338 allow the creation of empty source contexts.
339 - very experimental workaround for the totally broken netbsd platform.
340 - tried to hack around openbsd bugs.
341
342 4.804 Wed Nov 5 16:36:00 CET 2008
343 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server would not create a non-blocking listening
344 socket, sometimes causing freezes.
345 - (libcoro) fix misaligned stack points for setjmp and assembly
346 methods, which can cause crashes on x86/x86_64 with a sufficiently
347 aggressive compiler.
348 - new function: Coro::Debug::new_tcp_server.
349 - move ->throw into the Coro class because it only works on coro objects.
350
351 4.803 Mon Nov 3 17:16:12 CET 2008
352 - (libcoro) use a global asm statement to become independent of gcc
353 otpimisations for CORO_ASM (thanks to pippijn for the idea).
354 - try to workaround yet another broken bsd, this time dragonfly.
355
356 4.802 Thu Oct 30 10:56:12 CET 2008
357 - support -fno-omit-frame-pointer on x86 with the assembly method.
358 - tune 01_unblock.t tests a bit.
359
360 4.801 Wed Oct 22 18:33:37 CEST 2008
361 - improve readline speed for very long "lines".
362 - backport to 5.8.8.
363
364 4.8 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
365 - new function Coro::AIO::aio_wait.
366 - Coro.:AIO and Coro::BDB now "use Coro::AnyEvent".
367 - greatly speed up and reduce memory usage of Coro::AIO requests.
368 - implement some other µ-optimisations.
369
370 4.749 Mon Sep 29 14:40:12 CEST 2008
371 - port to slow and broken pseudo-threaded perls. (courtesy pippijn).
372
373 4.748 Sat Sep 27 14:03:19 CEST 2008
374 - implement, but do not document, PerlIO::cede(granularity).
375 - Coro::Storable forgot to wrap Storable::pstore.
376 - work around the multitude of leaks and memory corruption
377 bugs in PerlIO::via by using our own C-level perliol. As a side
378 effect, Coro::Storable is now much, much, much faster.
379
380 4.747 Tue Sep 23 01:59:41 CEST 2008
381 - fix a per-cv memleak (one empty array was leaked per
382 code reference).
383 - avoid a crash in coro->call|rss when the coroutine was already
384 destroyed (most noticably when using Coro::Debug::ps :)
385 - also protect *Storable::FILE.
386 - push up default storable granularity to 20ms.
387
388 4.746 Sun Sep 21 03:22:20 CEST 2008
389 - be more insistent on locking Storable against reentrancy
390 in Coro::Storable.
391 - move swap_def?v and throw to Coro::State, as documented.
392
393 4.745 Thu Jul 24 00:14:38 CEST 2008
394 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to
395 make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves
396 outdated software). Reported by John S.
397
398 4.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008
399 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented.
400 - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current
401 implementations inside perl work fine for us.
402
403 4.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008
404 - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could
405 result in busy-waiting for events, this has been fixed.
406 - reduce codesize and improve performance by using EV_DEFAULT_UC.
407
408 4.742 Sat May 31 14:10:21 CEST 2008
409 - implement a workaround for (some) perl <5.8.8 versions.
410 - require EV 3.3+.
411
412 4.741 Fri May 30 23:33:09 CEST 2008
413 - tell netbsd how utterly broken their imitation of an OS is
414 and refuse to build by default if pthreads are in use.
415 - switch to "s" method on all bsd's by default, as their ucontext
416 stuff seems just too broken.
417 - fix a bug in Coro::Select.
418
419 4.74 Thu May 29 20:05:31 CEST 2008
420 - do not test Coro::LWP for lack of dependencies.
421 - do not test Coro::Select for lack of working perls.
422
423 4.73 Thu May 29 2008
424 - fix a bug in Coro::EV which would cause it to block despite
425 there being runnable coroutines.
426 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress
427 warnings for some other modules.
428 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
429
430 4.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008
431 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way
432 to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :(
433 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to
434 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...).
435 - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented
436 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage
437 of AnyEvent's workaround for that problem.
438 - use AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking in Coro::Handle to work around
439 a common perl implementation bug on windows.
440 - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around
441 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by
442 tcp sockets on windows. ugh.)
443
444 4.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008
445 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()").
446 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util.
447 - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP.
448 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother
449 scheduling.
450
451 4.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
452 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
453 - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
454 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
455 - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
456 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
457 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
458 use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
459
460 4.6 Sat Apr 26 10:05:14 CEST 2008
461 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported
462 by the Coro module. It was a mistake to have it in the first place.
463 - (experimental) support for activestate perl 5.10 (method "w").
464 - (experimental) support for strawberry perl (method "a").
465 - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to,
466 actual impact unknown.
467
468 4.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008
469 - make it compile again on 5.8.
470
471 4.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008
472 - I did it twice! (see 4.49).
473
474 4.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008
475 - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they
476 were compiled on 5.8 only.
477
478 4.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
479 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
480 the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
481 (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
482 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
483
484 4.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
485 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
486 and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
487 leading to crashes and worse.
488 - document force_cctx.
489
490 4.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
491 - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
492 to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
493
494 4.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
495 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
496 downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
497 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
498 (also add testcase).
499 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
500 apparently having loads of fun with that).
501 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
502
503 4.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
504 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
505 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
506 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
507 - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
508 Andreas König.
509
510 4.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
511 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
512 "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
513
514 4.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
515 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
516 trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
517
518 4.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
519 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
520 from longmess and also skips the innermost
521 stackframes, giving more useufl output.
522 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
523 at a <1% speed hit.
524 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
525 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
526
527 4.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
528 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
529
530 4.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
531 - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
532
533 4.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
534 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
535 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
536 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
537
538 4.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
539 - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
540
541 4.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
542 - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
543 when the stack changed.
544 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
545 (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
546 if available.
547 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
548 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
549 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
550
551 4.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
552 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
553 and Coro::Handle.
554
555 4.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
556 - fix a spurious memory read.
557 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
558
559 4.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
560 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
561 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
562 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
563 - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
564 does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
565 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
566 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
567 directly supported by Coro.
568 - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
569 stuff in Coro::Util.
570 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
571 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
572 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
573
574 4.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
575 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
576 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
577 $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
578 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
579 instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
580 This also catches recursive invocations.
581 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
582
583 4.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
584 - port to threaded perls.
585
586 4.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
587 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
588 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
589 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
590 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
591 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
592 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
593 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
594 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
595 speeds up context switching a bit.
596 - further tune default stack sizes.
597 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
598 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
599 resulting in races between coroutines.
600 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
601 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
602 an unrelated coroutine.
603 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
604 more detail in Coro::State.
605 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
606 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
607 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
608 invalidating pointers.
609
610 4.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
611 - added Coro::throw method.
612 - minor code cleanups.
613
614 4.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
615 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
616 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
617 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
618 or use tracing).
619 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
620 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
621 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
622
623 4.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
624 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
625 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
626
627 4.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
628 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
629 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
630 debugging, tracing and much more.
631 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
632 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
633 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
634 flags.
635 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
636 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
637 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
638 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
639 - added Coro::killall.
640 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
641 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
642 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
643 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
644 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
645 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
646 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
647 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
648 - many minor tweaks.
649
650 3.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
651 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
652
653 3.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
654 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
655 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
656
657 3.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
658 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
659 pst's sometimes.
660 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
661 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
662 be threadsafe...).
663 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
664 but stateful semantics.
665 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
666 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
667
668 3.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
669 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
670 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
671 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
672 (EXPERIMENTAL).
673 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
674 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
675 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
676 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
677
678 3.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
679 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
680 it by default.
681 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
682 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
683 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
684 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
685 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
686 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
687 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
688 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
689 performance.
690
691 3.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
692 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
693 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
694
695 3.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
696 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
697 them without asking.
698
699 3.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
700 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
701 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
702 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
703 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
704 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
705 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
706
707 3.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
708 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
709 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
710 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
711 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
712 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
713 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
714 obsolete platforms.
715
716 3.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
717 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
718 but was rather flaky in practise.
719 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
720 it was reused.
721 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
722 in cede_notself.
723
724 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
725 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
726 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
727 documented and - hopefully - improved.
728 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
729 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
730 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
731 that could errronously trigger.
732 - fix various large and small memleaks.
733 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
734 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
735 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
736 - added Coro::guard function.
737 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
738 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
739 and 128k coros with async_pool).
740 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
741
742 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
743 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
744 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
745 - simplify configuration for users.
746 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
747 their coro replacements.
748
749 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
750 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
751 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
752 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
753 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
754 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
755 - save/restore tainted status.
756 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
757
758 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
759 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
760 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
761 - give a better error message on deadlock.
762 - document Coro::nready.
763 - enhanced testsuite.
764
765 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
766 - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
767
768 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
769 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
770 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
771 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
772 pool (size currently hardcoded).
773 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
774 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
775 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
776 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
777 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
778 check for changed watchers.
779 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
780 per event.
781 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
782 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
783 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
784 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
785 some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
786 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
787 directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
788 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
789 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
790 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
791 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
792 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
793 - updated to newest libcoro.
794 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
795 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
796 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
797 and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
798 if somebody asks for it :)
799 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
800 spuriously without the event having happened.
801
802 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
803 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
804 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
805 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
806 make LWP non-blocking.
807 - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
808 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
809 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
810 - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
811 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
812 - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
813 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
814 by LWP(!!).
815 - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
816 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
817 kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
818 did already.
819
820 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
821 - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
822 zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
823 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
824 (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
825 - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
826 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
827 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
828 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
829
830 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
831 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
832
833 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
834
835 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
836 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
837 mark & sweep gc run.
838 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
839
840 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
841 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
842 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
843
844 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
845 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
846 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
847 wrong package.
848 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
849 perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
850 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
851 normally uses.
852 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
853
854 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
855 - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
856
857 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
858 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
859 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
860 - strict'ify some modules.
861 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
862 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
863 - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
864
865 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
866 - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
867 when 'l'inux method was used.
868
869 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
870 - some portability fixes/workarounds.
871
872 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
873 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
874 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
875 Coro::State::flush method.
876 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
877
878 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
879 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
880 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
881 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
882 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
883 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
884
885 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
886 - change of contact address.
887
888 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
889 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
890 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
891
892 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
893 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
894 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
895 padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
896
897 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
898 - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
899
900 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
901 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
902 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
903 as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
904 Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
905 between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
906 fixable).
907 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
908
909 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
910 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
911 faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
912 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
913 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
914 observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
915 of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
916 pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
917 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
918 - fix for threaded perl.
919
920 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
921 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
922 memory leaks.
923 - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
924 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
925 hopefully ignoring it "just works".
926
927 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
928 - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
929 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
930
931 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
932 - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
933 of new features.
934 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
935 Highly correct stuff, that is...
936 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
937 the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
938
939 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
940 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
941 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
942 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
943 so preselect it.
944
945 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
946 - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
947 on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
948
949 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
950 - added a README.linux-glibc.
951 - new module Coro::Select.
952 - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
953 (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
954 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
955
956 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
957 - made lazy context switching the default.
958 - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
959 was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
960 - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
961 - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
962
963 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
964 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
965 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
966 - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
967 ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
968 - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
969 of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
970
971 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
972 - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
973 - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
974 could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
975
976 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
977 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
978 (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
979 without Event, which freezes).
980
981 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
982 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
983
984 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
985 - some tests for Event.
986 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
987 and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
988 new ones.
989 - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
990 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
991
992 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
993 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
994 patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
995 - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
996
997 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
998 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
999 could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
1000 error.
1001 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
1002 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
1003 - implemented terminate with args + join.
1004
1005 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
1006 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
1007 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
1008 in various modules.
1009 - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
1010 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
1011
1012 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
1013 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
1014 inside Coro::Handle.
1015 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
1016 speed reasons.
1017 - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
1018 sjlj and ucontext should now work.
1019 - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
1020 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
1021 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
1022 - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
1023 under some circumstances.
1024 - other bugfixes.
1025
1026 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
1027 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
1028 - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
1029 - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
1030 - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
1031 - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
1032 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
1033 syntax.
1034 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
1035 - new simple priority system.
1036 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
1037 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
1038
1039 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
1040 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
1041 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
1042 (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
1043 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
1044 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
1045 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
1046 "Callback called exit" messages).
1047 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
1048 - much better Coro::Socket support.
1049
1050 0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
1051 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
1052 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
1053 should work well in practise ;)
1054 - added Coro::RWLock.
1055 - Coro::Specific now works.
1056
1057 0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
1058 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
1059 - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
1060 - new module Coro::Socket.
1061
1062 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
1063 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
1064 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
1065 for yield.
1066 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
1067 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
1068 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
1069 perl-5.6.
1070 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
1071 - the idle process is now overriden
1072 by default in Coro::Event.
1073 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
1074 - canceling events now works in all cases.
1075 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
1076 - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
1077 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
1078 non-blocking i/o.
1079 - performance tuning.
1080
1081 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
1082 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
1083 - add Coro::State::flush function.
1084 - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
1085 - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
1086 - continuations have a saner syntax.
1087 - no more memleaks.
1088
1089 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
1090 - release candidate 1 ;)
1091 - slightly nicer code.
1092 - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
1093
1094 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
1095 - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
1096 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
1097 see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
1098 chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
1099 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
1100 - Coro::Event now works (haha).
1101
1102 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
1103 - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
1104 - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
1105
1106 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
1107 - @_ is now properly localized.
1108 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
1109 - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
1110 - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
1111 coroutine-specific vars.
1112 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
1113
1114 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
1115 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
1116 - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
1117 - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
1118 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
1119 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
1120 model. Still crude and subject to change.
1121 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
1122
1123 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
1124 - implemented "async" attribute.
1125 - $_ and $@ are now localized.
1126 - added Coro::Channel.
1127 - more testcases, still no docs.
1128
1129 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
1130 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
1131