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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 - be a bit more crash-resistant when calling (buggy) on_destroy
8 callbacks (bets effort).
9
10 5.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011
11 - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to
12 work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to
13 my attention by Max Maischein).
14 - fix some portability issues when Time::HiRes was used.
15
16 5.371 Mon Feb 21 14:36:08 CET 2011
17 - backport to windows process emulation code again.
18
19 5.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011
20 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
21 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
22 introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
23 - no longer use Time::HiRes if gettimeofday is available, which
24 saves quite a lot of memory.
25
26 5.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
27 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
28 Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
29 method call.
30 - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
31 - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
32 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
33 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
34
35 5.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
36 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
37 working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
38 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
39 with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
40
41 5.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
42 - port to the EV 4.0 API.
43 - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
44 out of the box.
45 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
46 so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
47 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
48
49 5.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
50 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
51 Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
52 Waldorf).
53 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
54
55 5.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
56 - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
57 (testcase by Marc Mims).
58 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
59 are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
60 functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
61 fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
62 with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
63 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
64 modules could have provided their own idle coro already
65 (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
66 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
67 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
68
69 5.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
70 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
71 together.
72 - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
73 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
74 the most common source of confusion.
75 - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
76 - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
77 older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
78 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
79
80 5.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
81 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
82 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
83 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
84 - new method $state->swap_sv.
85 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
86 after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
87 salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
88 were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
89 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
90 and maybe well enough for others to understand.
91 - use common::sense everywhere now.
92 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
93 - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
94
95 5.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
96 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
97 when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
98 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
99 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
100 setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
101 - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
102
103 5.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
104 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
105 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
106
107 5.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
108 - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
109 used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
110 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
111 not on demand.
112 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
113
114 5.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
115 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
116 when no threads had been readied between detecting
117 the event loop and actually running it.
118 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
119 of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
120 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
121 (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
122 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
123 and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
124 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
125 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
126 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
127 for hardcode select overriding.
128
129 5.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
130 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
131 Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
132 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
133
134 5.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
135 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
136 AnyEvent::Socket instead.
137 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
138 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
139 to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
140 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
141 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
142 reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
143 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
144 (Coro::State::enable_times).
145
146 5.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
147 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
148 as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
149 idle_upto).
150 - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
151 - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
152 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
153 avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
154 had already been freed.
155 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
156 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
157 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
158 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
159 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
160 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
161 Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
162 (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
163 - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
164 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
165 - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
166 (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
167
168 5.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
169 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
170 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
171 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
172 should support a prepare callback.
173
174 5.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
175 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
176 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
177 the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
178
179 5.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
180 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
181 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
182 spurious warnings.
183 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
184 - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
185 - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
186 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
187 - deprecate Coro::guard.
188 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
189 testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
190 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
191 - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
192 - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
193 when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
194 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
195 to avoid needless segfaults.
196
197 5.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
198 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
199 compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
200 openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
201 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
202 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
203 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
204 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
205 - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
206 destruction.
207 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
208 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
209 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
210 - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
211 pthreads fare better?).
212 - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
213
214 5.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
215 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
216 working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
217 it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
218
219 5.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
220 - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
221 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
222 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
223 and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
224 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
225 LWP data transfers.
226 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
227 correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
228 objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
229 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
230 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably
231 doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
232 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
233 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
234 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
235 do not have this method (and don't need it either).
236 - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
237 callbacks.
238 - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
239 others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
240 through the idle threads now.
241 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
242 - eg/event was pretty broken.
243 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
244
245 5.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
246 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
247 stability issues.
248 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
249 - removed timed_* functions - they were not being used anyways
250 and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
251 and were annoying to support anyways :)
252 - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem method instead.
253 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
254 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
255 ("Attempt to unreference...").
256 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
257 was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
258 would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where
259 it was available but waiters were still blocked).
260 - calling throw on a coroutine that is waiting for a semaphore will
261 no longer make it acquire the semaphore (and thus leak a count).
262 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported
263 anymore.
264 - new functions Coro::rouse_cb and Coro::rouse_wait for easier
265 conversion of callback-style to blocking-style.
266 - new methods $coro->schedule_to and ->cede_to, to specifically
267 schedule or cede to a specific coroutine.
268 - new function Coro::Semaphore::wait.
269 - use named constants in Coro::Channel (Richard Hundt).
270 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede,
271 transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but
272 more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of
273 entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from
274 those functions and atcually create new ones.
275 - take advantage of __builtin_frame_address on gcc.
276 - expose THX in coroapi (not sure whether this was a wise decision,
277 as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways).
278 - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes
279 it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS.
280 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a
281 factor of two.
282 - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a
283 factor of three.
284 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of
285 four and reduce its memory usage considerably.
286 - implement Coro::SemaphoreSet purely in terms of Coro::Semaphore,
287 for a nice speedup and vastly more correct behaviour. Also implement
288 a new method "sem" to get at the underlying semaphore object.
289 - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate
290 (in comparison) 20-40% speedup.
291 - used new SLF interface to reimplement Coro::Signal gaining
292 some unknown (because I was too lazy), but certain, speedup, and also
293 making signals reliable for the first time.
294 - used new SLF interface and other optimisations to speed up async_pool
295 by a factor of two. It also doesn't rely on perl's exception mechanism
296 to exit anymore. The overhead for terminating an async_pool, coro over
297 a normal async is now very small.
298 - sped up coroutine creation/destruction by 40%.
299 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years.
300 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
301 pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
302 - use new rouse functions to speed up and simplify Coro::BDB.
303 - make "prefer perl native functions" work with threaded perls.
304 - condense Coro::Debug ps output, hint at v and w flags.
305 - (libcoro) lots of minor cleanups and portability improvements.
306
307 4.914 Wed Nov 19 12:54:18 CET 2008
308 - fix a disastrous bug in the readline optimisation
309 introduced in 4.801.
310
311 4.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008
312 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
313 ("Attempt to unreference...").
314
315 4.912 Thu Nov 13 18:31:23 CET 2008
316 - minor cleanups.
317 - use much larger stacks on linux and perl < 5.8.8.
318 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server did not unlink the socket
319 when destroyed.
320
321 4.911 Tue Nov 11 04:26:17 CET 2008
322 - "port" to threaded perls.
323
324 4.91 Mon Nov 10 05:36:38 CET 2008
325 - the ->throw exception object no longer leaks.
326 - creating a new cctx leaked a scopestack entry (memleak).
327 - new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field
328 (unknown impact).
329 - calling ->throw on a not-yet-started coroutine should now work
330 instead of being ignored.
331 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
332 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
333 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
334
335 4.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008
336 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
337 - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
338 also speed it up considerably.
339 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
340 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
341 - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
342 - Coro::State::cctx_stacksize wasn't applied correctly.
343 - new function Coro::State::cctx_max_idle.
344 - the default max number of idle C contexts is now 4.
345 - (libcoro) try harder to get _setjmp/_longjmp.
346 - (libcoro) cleanup and extend the libcoro API to officially
347 allow the creation of empty source contexts.
348 - very experimental workaround for the totally broken netbsd platform.
349 - tried to hack around openbsd bugs.
350
351 4.804 Wed Nov 5 16:36:00 CET 2008
352 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server would not create a non-blocking listening
353 socket, sometimes causing freezes.
354 - (libcoro) fix misaligned stack points for setjmp and assembly
355 methods, which can cause crashes on x86/x86_64 with a sufficiently
356 aggressive compiler.
357 - new function: Coro::Debug::new_tcp_server.
358 - move ->throw into the Coro class because it only works on coro objects.
359
360 4.803 Mon Nov 3 17:16:12 CET 2008
361 - (libcoro) use a global asm statement to become independent of gcc
362 otpimisations for CORO_ASM (thanks to pippijn for the idea).
363 - try to workaround yet another broken bsd, this time dragonfly.
364
365 4.802 Thu Oct 30 10:56:12 CET 2008
366 - support -fno-omit-frame-pointer on x86 with the assembly method.
367 - tune 01_unblock.t tests a bit.
368
369 4.801 Wed Oct 22 18:33:37 CEST 2008
370 - improve readline speed for very long "lines".
371 - backport to 5.8.8.
372
373 4.8 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
374 - new function Coro::AIO::aio_wait.
375 - Coro.:AIO and Coro::BDB now "use Coro::AnyEvent".
376 - greatly speed up and reduce memory usage of Coro::AIO requests.
377 - implement some other µ-optimisations.
378
379 4.749 Mon Sep 29 14:40:12 CEST 2008
380 - port to slow and broken pseudo-threaded perls. (courtesy pippijn).
381
382 4.748 Sat Sep 27 14:03:19 CEST 2008
383 - implement, but do not document, PerlIO::cede(granularity).
384 - Coro::Storable forgot to wrap Storable::pstore.
385 - work around the multitude of leaks and memory corruption
386 bugs in PerlIO::via by using our own C-level perliol. As a side
387 effect, Coro::Storable is now much, much, much faster.
388
389 4.747 Tue Sep 23 01:59:41 CEST 2008
390 - fix a per-cv memleak (one empty array was leaked per
391 code reference).
392 - avoid a crash in coro->call|rss when the coroutine was already
393 destroyed (most noticably when using Coro::Debug::ps :)
394 - also protect *Storable::FILE.
395 - push up default storable granularity to 20ms.
396
397 4.746 Sun Sep 21 03:22:20 CEST 2008
398 - be more insistent on locking Storable against reentrancy
399 in Coro::Storable.
400 - move swap_def?v and throw to Coro::State, as documented.
401
402 4.745 Thu Jul 24 00:14:38 CEST 2008
403 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to
404 make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves
405 outdated software). Reported by John S.
406
407 4.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008
408 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented.
409 - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current
410 implementations inside perl work fine for us.
411
412 4.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008
413 - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could
414 result in busy-waiting for events, this has been fixed.
415 - reduce codesize and improve performance by using EV_DEFAULT_UC.
416
417 4.742 Sat May 31 14:10:21 CEST 2008
418 - implement a workaround for (some) perl <5.8.8 versions.
419 - require EV 3.3+.
420
421 4.741 Fri May 30 23:33:09 CEST 2008
422 - tell netbsd how utterly broken their imitation of an OS is
423 and refuse to build by default if pthreads are in use.
424 - switch to "s" method on all bsd's by default, as their ucontext
425 stuff seems just too broken.
426 - fix a bug in Coro::Select.
427
428 4.74 Thu May 29 20:05:31 CEST 2008
429 - do not test Coro::LWP for lack of dependencies.
430 - do not test Coro::Select for lack of working perls.
431
432 4.73 Thu May 29 2008
433 - fix a bug in Coro::EV which would cause it to block despite
434 there being runnable coroutines.
435 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress
436 warnings for some other modules.
437 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
438
439 4.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008
440 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way
441 to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :(
442 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to
443 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...).
444 - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented
445 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage
446 of AnyEvent's workaround for that problem.
447 - use AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking in Coro::Handle to work around
448 a common perl implementation bug on windows.
449 - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around
450 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by
451 tcp sockets on windows. ugh.)
452
453 4.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008
454 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()").
455 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util.
456 - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP.
457 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother
458 scheduling.
459
460 4.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
461 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
462 - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
463 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
464 - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
465 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
466 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
467 use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
468
469 4.6 Sat Apr 26 10:05:14 CEST 2008
470 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported
471 by the Coro module. It was a mistake to have it in the first place.
472 - (experimental) support for activestate perl 5.10 (method "w").
473 - (experimental) support for strawberry perl (method "a").
474 - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to,
475 actual impact unknown.
476
477 4.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008
478 - make it compile again on 5.8.
479
480 4.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008
481 - I did it twice! (see 4.49).
482
483 4.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008
484 - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they
485 were compiled on 5.8 only.
486
487 4.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
488 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
489 the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
490 (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
491 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
492
493 4.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
494 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
495 and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
496 leading to crashes and worse.
497 - document force_cctx.
498
499 4.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
500 - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
501 to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
502
503 4.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
504 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
505 downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
506 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
507 (also add testcase).
508 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
509 apparently having loads of fun with that).
510 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
511
512 4.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
513 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
514 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
515 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
516 - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
517 Andreas König.
518
519 4.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
520 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
521 "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
522
523 4.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
524 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
525 trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
526
527 4.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
528 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
529 from longmess and also skips the innermost
530 stackframes, giving more useufl output.
531 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
532 at a <1% speed hit.
533 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
534 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
535
536 4.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
537 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
538
539 4.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
540 - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
541
542 4.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
543 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
544 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
545 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
546
547 4.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
548 - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
549
550 4.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
551 - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
552 when the stack changed.
553 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
554 (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
555 if available.
556 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
557 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
558 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
559
560 4.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
561 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
562 and Coro::Handle.
563
564 4.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
565 - fix a spurious memory read.
566 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
567
568 4.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
569 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
570 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
571 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
572 - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
573 does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
574 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
575 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
576 directly supported by Coro.
577 - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
578 stuff in Coro::Util.
579 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
580 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
581 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
582
583 4.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
584 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
585 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
586 $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
587 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
588 instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
589 This also catches recursive invocations.
590 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
591
592 4.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
593 - port to threaded perls.
594
595 4.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
596 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
597 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
598 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
599 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
600 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
601 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
602 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
603 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
604 speeds up context switching a bit.
605 - further tune default stack sizes.
606 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
607 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
608 resulting in races between coroutines.
609 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
610 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
611 an unrelated coroutine.
612 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
613 more detail in Coro::State.
614 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
615 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
616 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
617 invalidating pointers.
618
619 4.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
620 - added Coro::throw method.
621 - minor code cleanups.
622
623 4.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
624 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
625 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
626 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
627 or use tracing).
628 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
629 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
630 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
631
632 4.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
633 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
634 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
635
636 4.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
637 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
638 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
639 debugging, tracing and much more.
640 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
641 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
642 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
643 flags.
644 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
645 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
646 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
647 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
648 - added Coro::killall.
649 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
650 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
651 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
652 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
653 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
654 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
655 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
656 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
657 - many minor tweaks.
658
659 3.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
660 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
661
662 3.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
663 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
664 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
665
666 3.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
667 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
668 pst's sometimes.
669 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
670 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
671 be threadsafe...).
672 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
673 but stateful semantics.
674 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
675 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
676
677 3.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
678 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
679 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
680 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
681 (EXPERIMENTAL).
682 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
683 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
684 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
685 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
686
687 3.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
688 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
689 it by default.
690 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
691 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
692 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
693 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
694 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
695 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
696 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
697 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
698 performance.
699
700 3.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
701 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
702 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
703
704 3.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
705 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
706 them without asking.
707
708 3.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
709 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
710 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
711 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
712 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
713 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
714 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
715
716 3.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
717 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
718 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
719 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
720 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
721 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
722 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
723 obsolete platforms.
724
725 3.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
726 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
727 but was rather flaky in practise.
728 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
729 it was reused.
730 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
731 in cede_notself.
732
733 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
734 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
735 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
736 documented and - hopefully - improved.
737 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
738 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
739 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
740 that could errronously trigger.
741 - fix various large and small memleaks.
742 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
743 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
744 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
745 - added Coro::guard function.
746 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
747 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
748 and 128k coros with async_pool).
749 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
750
751 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
752 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
753 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
754 - simplify configuration for users.
755 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
756 their coro replacements.
757
758 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
759 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
760 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
761 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
762 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
763 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
764 - save/restore tainted status.
765 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
766
767 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
768 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
769 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
770 - give a better error message on deadlock.
771 - document Coro::nready.
772 - enhanced testsuite.
773
774 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
775 - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
776
777 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
778 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
779 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
780 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
781 pool (size currently hardcoded).
782 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
783 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
784 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
785 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
786 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
787 check for changed watchers.
788 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
789 per event.
790 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
791 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
792 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
793 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
794 some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
795 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
796 directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
797 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
798 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
799 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
800 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
801 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
802 - updated to newest libcoro.
803 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
804 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
805 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
806 and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
807 if somebody asks for it :)
808 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
809 spuriously without the event having happened.
810
811 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
812 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
813 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
814 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
815 make LWP non-blocking.
816 - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
817 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
818 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
819 - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
820 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
821 - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
822 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
823 by LWP(!!).
824 - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
825 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
826 kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
827 did already.
828
829 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
830 - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
831 zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
832 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
833 (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
834 - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
835 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
836 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
837 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
838
839 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
840 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
841
842 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
843
844 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
845 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
846 mark & sweep gc run.
847 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
848
849 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
850 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
851 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
852
853 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
854 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
855 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
856 wrong package.
857 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
858 perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
859 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
860 normally uses.
861 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
862
863 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
864 - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
865
866 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
867 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
868 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
869 - strict'ify some modules.
870 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
871 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
872 - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
873
874 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
875 - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
876 when 'l'inux method was used.
877
878 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
879 - some portability fixes/workarounds.
880
881 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
882 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
883 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
884 Coro::State::flush method.
885 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
886
887 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
888 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
889 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
890 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
891 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
892 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
893
894 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
895 - change of contact address.
896
897 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
898 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
899 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
900
901 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
902 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
903 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
904 padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
905
906 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
907 - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
908
909 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
910 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
911 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
912 as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
913 Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
914 between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
915 fixable).
916 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
917
918 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
919 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
920 faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
921 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
922 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
923 observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
924 of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
925 pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
926 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
927 - fix for threaded perl.
928
929 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
930 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
931 memory leaks.
932 - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
933 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
934 hopefully ignoring it "just works".
935
936 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
937 - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
938 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
939
940 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
941 - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
942 of new features.
943 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
944 Highly correct stuff, that is...
945 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
946 the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
947
948 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
949 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
950 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
951 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
952 so preselect it.
953
954 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
955 - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
956 on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
957
958 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
959 - added a README.linux-glibc.
960 - new module Coro::Select.
961 - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
962 (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
963 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
964
965 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
966 - made lazy context switching the default.
967 - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
968 was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
969 - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
970 - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
971
972 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
973 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
974 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
975 - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
976 ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
977 - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
978 of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
979
980 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
981 - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
982 - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
983 could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
984
985 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
986 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
987 (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
988 without Event, which freezes).
989
990 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
991 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
992
993 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
994 - some tests for Event.
995 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
996 and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
997 new ones.
998 - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
999 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
1000
1001 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
1002 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
1003 patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
1004 - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
1005
1006 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
1007 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
1008 could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
1009 error.
1010 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
1011 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
1012 - implemented terminate with args + join.
1013
1014 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
1015 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
1016 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
1017 in various modules.
1018 - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
1019 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
1020
1021 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
1022 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
1023 inside Coro::Handle.
1024 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
1025 speed reasons.
1026 - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
1027 sjlj and ucontext should now work.
1028 - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
1029 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
1030 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
1031 - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
1032 under some circumstances.
1033 - other bugfixes.
1034
1035 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
1036 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
1037 - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
1038 - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
1039 - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
1040 - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
1041 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
1042 syntax.
1043 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
1044 - new simple priority system.
1045 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
1046 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
1047
1048 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
1049 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
1050 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
1051 (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
1052 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
1053 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
1054 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
1055 "Callback called exit" messages).
1056 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
1057 - much better Coro::Socket support.
1058
1059 0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
1060 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
1061 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
1062 should work well in practise ;)
1063 - added Coro::RWLock.
1064 - Coro::Specific now works.
1065
1066 0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
1067 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
1068 - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
1069 - new module Coro::Socket.
1070
1071 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
1072 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
1073 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
1074 for yield.
1075 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
1076 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
1077 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
1078 perl-5.6.
1079 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
1080 - the idle process is now overriden
1081 by default in Coro::Event.
1082 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
1083 - canceling events now works in all cases.
1084 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
1085 - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
1086 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
1087 non-blocking i/o.
1088 - performance tuning.
1089
1090 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
1091 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
1092 - add Coro::State::flush function.
1093 - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
1094 - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
1095 - continuations have a saner syntax.
1096 - no more memleaks.
1097
1098 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
1099 - release candidate 1 ;)
1100 - slightly nicer code.
1101 - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
1102
1103 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
1104 - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
1105 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
1106 see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
1107 chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
1108 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
1109 - Coro::Event now works (haha).
1110
1111 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
1112 - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
1113 - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
1114
1115 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
1116 - @_ is now properly localized.
1117 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
1118 - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
1119 - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
1120 coroutine-specific vars.
1121 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
1122
1123 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
1124 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
1125 - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
1126 - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
1127 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
1128 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
1129 model. Still crude and subject to change.
1130 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
1131
1132 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
1133 - implemented "async" attribute.
1134 - $_ and $@ are now localized.
1135 - added Coro::Channel.
1136 - more testcases, still no docs.
1137
1138 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
1139 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
1140