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Revision: 1.553
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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 5.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011
8 - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to
9 work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to
10 my attention by Max Maischein).
11 - fix some portability issues when Time::HiRes was used.
12
13 5.371 Mon Feb 21 14:36:08 CET 2011
14 - backport to windows process emulation code again.
15
16 5.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011
17 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
18 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
19 introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
20 - no longer use Time::HiRes if gettimeofday is available, which
21 saves quite a lot of memory.
22
23 5.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
24 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
25 Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
26 method call.
27 - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
28 - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
29 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
30 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
31
32 5.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
33 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
34 working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
35 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
36 with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
37
38 5.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
39 - port to the EV 4.0 API.
40 - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
41 out of the box.
42 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
43 so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
44 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
45
46 5.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
47 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
48 Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
49 Waldorf).
50 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
51
52 5.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
53 - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
54 (testcase by Marc Mims).
55 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
56 are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
57 functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
58 fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
59 with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
60 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
61 modules could have provided their own idle coro already
62 (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
63 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
64 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
65
66 5.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
67 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
68 together.
69 - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
70 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
71 the most common source of confusion.
72 - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
73 - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
74 older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
75 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
76
77 5.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
78 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
79 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
80 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
81 - new method $state->swap_sv.
82 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
83 after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
84 salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
85 were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
86 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
87 and maybe well enough for others to understand.
88 - use common::sense everywhere now.
89 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
90 - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
91
92 5.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
93 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
94 when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
95 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
96 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
97 setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
98 - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
99
100 5.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
101 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
102 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
103
104 5.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
105 - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
106 used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
107 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
108 not on demand.
109 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
110
111 5.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
112 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
113 when no threads had been readied between detecting
114 the event loop and actually running it.
115 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
116 of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
117 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
118 (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
119 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
120 and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
121 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
122 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
123 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
124 for hardcode select overriding.
125
126 5.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
127 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
128 Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
129 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
130
131 5.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
132 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
133 AnyEvent::Socket instead.
134 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
135 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
136 to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
137 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
138 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
139 reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
140 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
141 (Coro::State::enable_times).
142
143 5.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
144 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
145 as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
146 idle_upto).
147 - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
148 - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
149 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
150 avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
151 had already been freed.
152 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
153 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
154 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
155 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
156 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
157 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
158 Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
159 (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
160 - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
161 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
162 - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
163 (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
164
165 5.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
166 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
167 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
168 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
169 should support a prepare callback.
170
171 5.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
172 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
173 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
174 the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
175
176 5.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
177 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
178 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
179 spurious warnings.
180 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
181 - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
182 - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
183 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
184 - deprecate Coro::guard.
185 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
186 testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
187 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
188 - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
189 - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
190 when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
191 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
192 to avoid needless segfaults.
193
194 5.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
195 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
196 compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
197 openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
198 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
199 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
200 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
201 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
202 - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
203 destruction.
204 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
205 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
206 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
207 - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
208 pthreads fare better?).
209 - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
210
211 5.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
212 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
213 working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
214 it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
215
216 5.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
217 - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
218 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
219 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
220 and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
221 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
222 LWP data transfers.
223 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
224 correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
225 objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
226 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
227 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably
228 doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
229 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
230 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
231 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
232 do not have this method (and don't need it either).
233 - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
234 callbacks.
235 - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
236 others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
237 through the idle threads now.
238 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
239 - eg/event was pretty broken.
240 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
241
242 5.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
243 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
244 stability issues.
245 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
246 - removed timed_* functions - they were not being used anyways
247 and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
248 and were annoying to support anyways :)
249 - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem method instead.
250 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
251 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
252 ("Attempt to unreference...").
253 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
254 was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
255 would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where
256 it was available but waiters were still blocked).
257 - calling throw on a coroutine that is waiting for a semaphore will
258 no longer make it acquire the semaphore (and thus leak a count).
259 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported
260 anymore.
261 - new functions Coro::rouse_cb and Coro::rouse_wait for easier
262 conversion of callback-style to blocking-style.
263 - new methods $coro->schedule_to and ->cede_to, to specifically
264 schedule or cede to a specific coroutine.
265 - new function Coro::Semaphore::wait.
266 - use named constants in Coro::Channel (Richard Hundt).
267 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede,
268 transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but
269 more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of
270 entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from
271 those functions and atcually create new ones.
272 - take advantage of __builtin_frame_address on gcc.
273 - expose THX in coroapi (not sure whether this was a wise decision,
274 as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways).
275 - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes
276 it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS.
277 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a
278 factor of two.
279 - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a
280 factor of three.
281 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of
282 four and reduce its memory usage considerably.
283 - implement Coro::SemaphoreSet purely in terms of Coro::Semaphore,
284 for a nice speedup and vastly more correct behaviour. Also implement
285 a new method "sem" to get at the underlying semaphore object.
286 - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate
287 (in comparison) 20-40% speedup.
288 - used new SLF interface to reimplement Coro::Signal gaining
289 some unknown (because I was too lazy), but certain, speedup, and also
290 making signals reliable for the first time.
291 - used new SLF interface and other optimisations to speed up async_pool
292 by a factor of two. It also doesn't rely on perl's exception mechanism
293 to exit anymore. The overhead for terminating an async_pool, coro over
294 a normal async is now very small.
295 - sped up coroutine creation/destruction by 40%.
296 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years.
297 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
298 pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
299 - use new rouse functions to speed up and simplify Coro::BDB.
300 - make "prefer perl native functions" work with threaded perls.
301 - condense Coro::Debug ps output, hint at v and w flags.
302 - (libcoro) lots of minor cleanups and portability improvements.
303
304 4.914 Wed Nov 19 12:54:18 CET 2008
305 - fix a disastrous bug in the readline optimisation
306 introduced in 4.801.
307
308 4.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008
309 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
310 ("Attempt to unreference...").
311
312 4.912 Thu Nov 13 18:31:23 CET 2008
313 - minor cleanups.
314 - use much larger stacks on linux and perl < 5.8.8.
315 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server did not unlink the socket
316 when destroyed.
317
318 4.911 Tue Nov 11 04:26:17 CET 2008
319 - "port" to threaded perls.
320
321 4.91 Mon Nov 10 05:36:38 CET 2008
322 - the ->throw exception object no longer leaks.
323 - creating a new cctx leaked a scopestack entry (memleak).
324 - new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field
325 (unknown impact).
326 - calling ->throw on a not-yet-started coroutine should now work
327 instead of being ignored.
328 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
329 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
330 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
331
332 4.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008
333 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
334 - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
335 also speed it up considerably.
336 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
337 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
338 - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
339 - Coro::State::cctx_stacksize wasn't applied correctly.
340 - new function Coro::State::cctx_max_idle.
341 - the default max number of idle C contexts is now 4.
342 - (libcoro) try harder to get _setjmp/_longjmp.
343 - (libcoro) cleanup and extend the libcoro API to officially
344 allow the creation of empty source contexts.
345 - very experimental workaround for the totally broken netbsd platform.
346 - tried to hack around openbsd bugs.
347
348 4.804 Wed Nov 5 16:36:00 CET 2008
349 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server would not create a non-blocking listening
350 socket, sometimes causing freezes.
351 - (libcoro) fix misaligned stack points for setjmp and assembly
352 methods, which can cause crashes on x86/x86_64 with a sufficiently
353 aggressive compiler.
354 - new function: Coro::Debug::new_tcp_server.
355 - move ->throw into the Coro class because it only works on coro objects.
356
357 4.803 Mon Nov 3 17:16:12 CET 2008
358 - (libcoro) use a global asm statement to become independent of gcc
359 otpimisations for CORO_ASM (thanks to pippijn for the idea).
360 - try to workaround yet another broken bsd, this time dragonfly.
361
362 4.802 Thu Oct 30 10:56:12 CET 2008
363 - support -fno-omit-frame-pointer on x86 with the assembly method.
364 - tune 01_unblock.t tests a bit.
365
366 4.801 Wed Oct 22 18:33:37 CEST 2008
367 - improve readline speed for very long "lines".
368 - backport to 5.8.8.
369
370 4.8 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
371 - new function Coro::AIO::aio_wait.
372 - Coro.:AIO and Coro::BDB now "use Coro::AnyEvent".
373 - greatly speed up and reduce memory usage of Coro::AIO requests.
374 - implement some other µ-optimisations.
375
376 4.749 Mon Sep 29 14:40:12 CEST 2008
377 - port to slow and broken pseudo-threaded perls. (courtesy pippijn).
378
379 4.748 Sat Sep 27 14:03:19 CEST 2008
380 - implement, but do not document, PerlIO::cede(granularity).
381 - Coro::Storable forgot to wrap Storable::pstore.
382 - work around the multitude of leaks and memory corruption
383 bugs in PerlIO::via by using our own C-level perliol. As a side
384 effect, Coro::Storable is now much, much, much faster.
385
386 4.747 Tue Sep 23 01:59:41 CEST 2008
387 - fix a per-cv memleak (one empty array was leaked per
388 code reference).
389 - avoid a crash in coro->call|rss when the coroutine was already
390 destroyed (most noticably when using Coro::Debug::ps :)
391 - also protect *Storable::FILE.
392 - push up default storable granularity to 20ms.
393
394 4.746 Sun Sep 21 03:22:20 CEST 2008
395 - be more insistent on locking Storable against reentrancy
396 in Coro::Storable.
397 - move swap_def?v and throw to Coro::State, as documented.
398
399 4.745 Thu Jul 24 00:14:38 CEST 2008
400 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to
401 make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves
402 outdated software). Reported by John S.
403
404 4.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008
405 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented.
406 - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current
407 implementations inside perl work fine for us.
408
409 4.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008
410 - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could
411 result in busy-waiting for events, this has been fixed.
412 - reduce codesize and improve performance by using EV_DEFAULT_UC.
413
414 4.742 Sat May 31 14:10:21 CEST 2008
415 - implement a workaround for (some) perl <5.8.8 versions.
416 - require EV 3.3+.
417
418 4.741 Fri May 30 23:33:09 CEST 2008
419 - tell netbsd how utterly broken their imitation of an OS is
420 and refuse to build by default if pthreads are in use.
421 - switch to "s" method on all bsd's by default, as their ucontext
422 stuff seems just too broken.
423 - fix a bug in Coro::Select.
424
425 4.74 Thu May 29 20:05:31 CEST 2008
426 - do not test Coro::LWP for lack of dependencies.
427 - do not test Coro::Select for lack of working perls.
428
429 4.73 Thu May 29 2008
430 - fix a bug in Coro::EV which would cause it to block despite
431 there being runnable coroutines.
432 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress
433 warnings for some other modules.
434 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
435
436 4.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008
437 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way
438 to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :(
439 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to
440 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...).
441 - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented
442 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage
443 of AnyEvent's workaround for that problem.
444 - use AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking in Coro::Handle to work around
445 a common perl implementation bug on windows.
446 - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around
447 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by
448 tcp sockets on windows. ugh.)
449
450 4.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008
451 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()").
452 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util.
453 - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP.
454 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother
455 scheduling.
456
457 4.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
458 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
459 - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
460 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
461 - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
462 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
463 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
464 use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
465
466 4.6 Sat Apr 26 10:05:14 CEST 2008
467 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported
468 by the Coro module. It was a mistake to have it in the first place.
469 - (experimental) support for activestate perl 5.10 (method "w").
470 - (experimental) support for strawberry perl (method "a").
471 - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to,
472 actual impact unknown.
473
474 4.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008
475 - make it compile again on 5.8.
476
477 4.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008
478 - I did it twice! (see 4.49).
479
480 4.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008
481 - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they
482 were compiled on 5.8 only.
483
484 4.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
485 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
486 the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
487 (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
488 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
489
490 4.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
491 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
492 and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
493 leading to crashes and worse.
494 - document force_cctx.
495
496 4.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
497 - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
498 to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
499
500 4.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
501 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
502 downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
503 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
504 (also add testcase).
505 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
506 apparently having loads of fun with that).
507 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
508
509 4.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
510 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
511 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
512 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
513 - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
514 Andreas König.
515
516 4.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
517 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
518 "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
519
520 4.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
521 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
522 trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
523
524 4.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
525 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
526 from longmess and also skips the innermost
527 stackframes, giving more useufl output.
528 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
529 at a <1% speed hit.
530 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
531 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
532
533 4.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
534 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
535
536 4.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
537 - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
538
539 4.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
540 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
541 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
542 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
543
544 4.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
545 - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
546
547 4.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
548 - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
549 when the stack changed.
550 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
551 (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
552 if available.
553 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
554 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
555 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
556
557 4.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
558 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
559 and Coro::Handle.
560
561 4.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
562 - fix a spurious memory read.
563 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
564
565 4.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
566 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
567 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
568 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
569 - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
570 does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
571 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
572 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
573 directly supported by Coro.
574 - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
575 stuff in Coro::Util.
576 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
577 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
578 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
579
580 4.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
581 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
582 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
583 $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
584 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
585 instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
586 This also catches recursive invocations.
587 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
588
589 4.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
590 - port to threaded perls.
591
592 4.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
593 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
594 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
595 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
596 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
597 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
598 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
599 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
600 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
601 speeds up context switching a bit.
602 - further tune default stack sizes.
603 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
604 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
605 resulting in races between coroutines.
606 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
607 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
608 an unrelated coroutine.
609 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
610 more detail in Coro::State.
611 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
612 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
613 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
614 invalidating pointers.
615
616 4.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
617 - added Coro::throw method.
618 - minor code cleanups.
619
620 4.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
621 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
622 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
623 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
624 or use tracing).
625 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
626 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
627 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
628
629 4.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
630 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
631 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
632
633 4.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
634 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
635 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
636 debugging, tracing and much more.
637 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
638 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
639 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
640 flags.
641 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
642 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
643 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
644 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
645 - added Coro::killall.
646 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
647 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
648 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
649 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
650 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
651 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
652 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
653 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
654 - many minor tweaks.
655
656 3.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
657 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
658
659 3.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
660 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
661 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
662
663 3.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
664 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
665 pst's sometimes.
666 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
667 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
668 be threadsafe...).
669 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
670 but stateful semantics.
671 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
672 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
673
674 3.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
675 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
676 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
677 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
678 (EXPERIMENTAL).
679 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
680 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
681 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
682 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
683
684 3.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
685 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
686 it by default.
687 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
688 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
689 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
690 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
691 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
692 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
693 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
694 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
695 performance.
696
697 3.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
698 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
699 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
700
701 3.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
702 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
703 them without asking.
704
705 3.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
706 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
707 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
708 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
709 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
710 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
711 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
712
713 3.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
714 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
715 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
716 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
717 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
718 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
719 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
720 obsolete platforms.
721
722 3.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
723 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
724 but was rather flaky in practise.
725 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
726 it was reused.
727 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
728 in cede_notself.
729
730 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
731 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
732 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
733 documented and - hopefully - improved.
734 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
735 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
736 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
737 that could errronously trigger.
738 - fix various large and small memleaks.
739 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
740 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
741 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
742 - added Coro::guard function.
743 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
744 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
745 and 128k coros with async_pool).
746 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
747
748 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
749 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
750 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
751 - simplify configuration for users.
752 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
753 their coro replacements.
754
755 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
756 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
757 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
758 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
759 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
760 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
761 - save/restore tainted status.
762 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
763
764 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
765 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
766 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
767 - give a better error message on deadlock.
768 - document Coro::nready.
769 - enhanced testsuite.
770
771 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
772 - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
773
774 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
775 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
776 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
777 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
778 pool (size currently hardcoded).
779 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
780 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
781 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
782 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
783 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
784 check for changed watchers.
785 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
786 per event.
787 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
788 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
789 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
790 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
791 some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
792 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
793 directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
794 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
795 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
796 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
797 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
798 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
799 - updated to newest libcoro.
800 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
801 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
802 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
803 and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
804 if somebody asks for it :)
805 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
806 spuriously without the event having happened.
807
808 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
809 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
810 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
811 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
812 make LWP non-blocking.
813 - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
814 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
815 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
816 - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
817 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
818 - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
819 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
820 by LWP(!!).
821 - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
822 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
823 kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
824 did already.
825
826 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
827 - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
828 zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
829 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
830 (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
831 - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
832 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
833 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
834 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
835
836 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
837 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
838
839 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
840
841 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
842 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
843 mark & sweep gc run.
844 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
845
846 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
847 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
848 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
849
850 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
851 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
852 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
853 wrong package.
854 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
855 perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
856 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
857 normally uses.
858 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
859
860 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
861 - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
862
863 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
864 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
865 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
866 - strict'ify some modules.
867 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
868 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
869 - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
870
871 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
872 - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
873 when 'l'inux method was used.
874
875 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
876 - some portability fixes/workarounds.
877
878 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
879 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
880 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
881 Coro::State::flush method.
882 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
883
884 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
885 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
886 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
887 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
888 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
889 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
890
891 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
892 - change of contact address.
893
894 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
895 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
896 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
897
898 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
899 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
900 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
901 padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
902
903 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
904 - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
905
906 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
907 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
908 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
909 as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
910 Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
911 between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
912 fixable).
913 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
914
915 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
916 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
917 faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
918 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
919 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
920 observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
921 of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
922 pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
923 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
924 - fix for threaded perl.
925
926 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
927 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
928 memory leaks.
929 - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
930 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
931 hopefully ignoring it "just works".
932
933 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
934 - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
935 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
936
937 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
938 - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
939 of new features.
940 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
941 Highly correct stuff, that is...
942 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
943 the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
944
945 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
946 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
947 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
948 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
949 so preselect it.
950
951 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
952 - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
953 on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
954
955 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
956 - added a README.linux-glibc.
957 - new module Coro::Select.
958 - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
959 (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
960 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
961
962 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
963 - made lazy context switching the default.
964 - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
965 was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
966 - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
967 - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
968
969 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
970 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
971 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
972 - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
973 ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
974 - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
975 of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
976
977 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
978 - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
979 - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
980 could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
981
982 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
983 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
984 (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
985 without Event, which freezes).
986
987 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
988 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
989
990 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
991 - some tests for Event.
992 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
993 and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
994 new ones.
995 - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
996 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
997
998 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
999 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
1000 patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
1001 - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
1002
1003 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
1004 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
1005 could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
1006 error.
1007 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
1008 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
1009 - implemented terminate with args + join.
1010
1011 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
1012 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
1013 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
1014 in various modules.
1015 - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
1016 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
1017
1018 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
1019 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
1020 inside Coro::Handle.
1021 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
1022 speed reasons.
1023 - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
1024 sjlj and ucontext should now work.
1025 - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
1026 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
1027 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
1028 - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
1029 under some circumstances.
1030 - other bugfixes.
1031
1032 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
1033 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
1034 - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
1035 - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
1036 - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
1037 - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
1038 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
1039 syntax.
1040 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
1041 - new simple priority system.
1042 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
1043 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
1044
1045 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
1046 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
1047 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
1048 (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
1049 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
1050 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
1051 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
1052 "Callback called exit" messages).
1053 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
1054 - much better Coro::Socket support.
1055
1056 0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
1057 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
1058 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
1059 should work well in practise ;)
1060 - added Coro::RWLock.
1061 - Coro::Specific now works.
1062
1063 0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
1064 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
1065 - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
1066 - new module Coro::Socket.
1067
1068 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
1069 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
1070 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
1071 for yield.
1072 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
1073 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
1074 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
1075 perl-5.6.
1076 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
1077 - the idle process is now overriden
1078 by default in Coro::Event.
1079 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
1080 - canceling events now works in all cases.
1081 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
1082 - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
1083 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
1084 non-blocking i/o.
1085 - performance tuning.
1086
1087 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
1088 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
1089 - add Coro::State::flush function.
1090 - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
1091 - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
1092 - continuations have a saner syntax.
1093 - no more memleaks.
1094
1095 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
1096 - release candidate 1 ;)
1097 - slightly nicer code.
1098 - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
1099
1100 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
1101 - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
1102 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
1103 see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
1104 chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
1105 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
1106 - Coro::Event now works (haha).
1107
1108 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
1109 - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
1110 - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
1111
1112 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
1113 - @_ is now properly localized.
1114 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
1115 - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
1116 - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
1117 coroutine-specific vars.
1118 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
1119
1120 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
1121 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
1122 - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
1123 - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
1124 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
1125 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
1126 model. Still crude and subject to change.
1127 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
1128
1129 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
1130 - implemented "async" attribute.
1131 - $_ and $@ are now localized.
1132 - added Coro::Channel.
1133 - more testcases, still no docs.
1134
1135 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
1136 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
1137