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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 - croak when a coro being cancelled tries to block (e.g. while executing
8 a guard block).
9 - implement Coro->cancel in XS for a 20% speed improvement, and to
10 be able to implement mutual cancellation.
11 - cancelling a coro while it itself is cancelling another coro is
12 now supported and working, instead of triggering an assertion.
13 - be a bit more crash-resistant when calling (buggy) on_destroy
14 callbacks (best effort).
15
16 5.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011
17 - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to
18 work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to
19 my attention by Max Maischein).
20 - fix some portability issues when Time::HiRes was used.
21
22 5.371 Mon Feb 21 14:36:08 CET 2011
23 - backport to windows process emulation code again.
24
25 5.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011
26 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
27 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
28 introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
29 - no longer use Time::HiRes if gettimeofday is available, which
30 saves quite a lot of memory.
31
32 5.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
33 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
34 Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
35 method call.
36 - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
37 - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
38 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
39 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
40
41 5.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
42 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
43 working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
44 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
45 with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
46
47 5.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
48 - port to the EV 4.0 API.
49 - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
50 out of the box.
51 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
52 so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
53 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
54
55 5.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
56 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
57 Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
58 Waldorf).
59 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
60
61 5.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
62 - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
63 (testcase by Marc Mims).
64 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
65 are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
66 functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
67 fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
68 with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
69 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
70 modules could have provided their own idle coro already
71 (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
72 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
73 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
74
75 5.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
76 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
77 together.
78 - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
79 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
80 the most common source of confusion.
81 - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
82 - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
83 older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
84 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
85
86 5.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
87 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
88 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
89 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
90 - new method $state->swap_sv.
91 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
92 after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
93 salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
94 were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
95 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
96 and maybe well enough for others to understand.
97 - use common::sense everywhere now.
98 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
99 - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
100
101 5.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
102 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
103 when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
104 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
105 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
106 setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
107 - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
108
109 5.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
110 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
111 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
112
113 5.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
114 - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
115 used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
116 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
117 not on demand.
118 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
119
120 5.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
121 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
122 when no threads had been readied between detecting
123 the event loop and actually running it.
124 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
125 of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
126 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
127 (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
128 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
129 and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
130 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
131 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
132 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
133 for hardcode select overriding.
134
135 5.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
136 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
137 Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
138 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
139
140 5.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
141 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
142 AnyEvent::Socket instead.
143 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
144 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
145 to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
146 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
147 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
148 reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
149 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
150 (Coro::State::enable_times).
151
152 5.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
153 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
154 as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
155 idle_upto).
156 - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
157 - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
158 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
159 avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
160 had already been freed.
161 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
162 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
163 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
164 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
165 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
166 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
167 Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
168 (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
169 - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
170 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
171 - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
172 (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
173
174 5.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
175 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
176 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
177 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
178 should support a prepare callback.
179
180 5.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
181 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
182 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
183 the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
184
185 5.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
186 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
187 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
188 spurious warnings.
189 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
190 - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
191 - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
192 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
193 - deprecate Coro::guard.
194 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
195 testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
196 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
197 - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
198 - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
199 when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
200 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
201 to avoid needless segfaults.
202
203 5.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
204 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
205 compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
206 openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
207 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
208 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
209 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
210 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
211 - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
212 destruction.
213 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
214 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
215 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
216 - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
217 pthreads fare better?).
218 - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
219
220 5.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
221 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
222 working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
223 it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
224
225 5.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
226 - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
227 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
228 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
229 and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
230 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
231 LWP data transfers.
232 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
233 correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
234 objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
235 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
236 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably
237 doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
238 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
239 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
240 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
241 do not have this method (and don't need it either).
242 - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
243 callbacks.
244 - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
245 others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
246 through the idle threads now.
247 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
248 - eg/event was pretty broken.
249 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
250
251 5.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
252 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
253 stability issues.
254 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
255 - removed timed_* functions - they were not being used anyways
256 and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
257 and were annoying to support anyways :)
258 - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem method instead.
259 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
260 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
261 ("Attempt to unreference...").
262 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
263 was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
264 would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where
265 it was available but waiters were still blocked).
266 - calling throw on a coroutine that is waiting for a semaphore will
267 no longer make it acquire the semaphore (and thus leak a count).
268 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported
269 anymore.
270 - new functions Coro::rouse_cb and Coro::rouse_wait for easier
271 conversion of callback-style to blocking-style.
272 - new methods $coro->schedule_to and ->cede_to, to specifically
273 schedule or cede to a specific coroutine.
274 - new function Coro::Semaphore::wait.
275 - use named constants in Coro::Channel (Richard Hundt).
276 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede,
277 transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but
278 more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of
279 entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from
280 those functions and atcually create new ones.
281 - take advantage of __builtin_frame_address on gcc.
282 - expose THX in coroapi (not sure whether this was a wise decision,
283 as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways).
284 - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes
285 it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS.
286 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a
287 factor of two.
288 - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a
289 factor of three.
290 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of
291 four and reduce its memory usage considerably.
292 - implement Coro::SemaphoreSet purely in terms of Coro::Semaphore,
293 for a nice speedup and vastly more correct behaviour. Also implement
294 a new method "sem" to get at the underlying semaphore object.
295 - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate
296 (in comparison) 20-40% speedup.
297 - used new SLF interface to reimplement Coro::Signal gaining
298 some unknown (because I was too lazy), but certain, speedup, and also
299 making signals reliable for the first time.
300 - used new SLF interface and other optimisations to speed up async_pool
301 by a factor of two. It also doesn't rely on perl's exception mechanism
302 to exit anymore. The overhead for terminating an async_pool, coro over
303 a normal async is now very small.
304 - sped up coroutine creation/destruction by 40%.
305 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years.
306 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
307 pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
308 - use new rouse functions to speed up and simplify Coro::BDB.
309 - make "prefer perl native functions" work with threaded perls.
310 - condense Coro::Debug ps output, hint at v and w flags.
311 - (libcoro) lots of minor cleanups and portability improvements.
312
313 4.914 Wed Nov 19 12:54:18 CET 2008
314 - fix a disastrous bug in the readline optimisation
315 introduced in 4.801.
316
317 4.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008
318 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
319 ("Attempt to unreference...").
320
321 4.912 Thu Nov 13 18:31:23 CET 2008
322 - minor cleanups.
323 - use much larger stacks on linux and perl < 5.8.8.
324 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server did not unlink the socket
325 when destroyed.
326
327 4.911 Tue Nov 11 04:26:17 CET 2008
328 - "port" to threaded perls.
329
330 4.91 Mon Nov 10 05:36:38 CET 2008
331 - the ->throw exception object no longer leaks.
332 - creating a new cctx leaked a scopestack entry (memleak).
333 - new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field
334 (unknown impact).
335 - calling ->throw on a not-yet-started coroutine should now work
336 instead of being ignored.
337 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
338 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
339 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
340
341 4.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008
342 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
343 - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
344 also speed it up considerably.
345 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
346 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
347 - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
348 - Coro::State::cctx_stacksize wasn't applied correctly.
349 - new function Coro::State::cctx_max_idle.
350 - the default max number of idle C contexts is now 4.
351 - (libcoro) try harder to get _setjmp/_longjmp.
352 - (libcoro) cleanup and extend the libcoro API to officially
353 allow the creation of empty source contexts.
354 - very experimental workaround for the totally broken netbsd platform.
355 - tried to hack around openbsd bugs.
356
357 4.804 Wed Nov 5 16:36:00 CET 2008
358 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server would not create a non-blocking listening
359 socket, sometimes causing freezes.
360 - (libcoro) fix misaligned stack points for setjmp and assembly
361 methods, which can cause crashes on x86/x86_64 with a sufficiently
362 aggressive compiler.
363 - new function: Coro::Debug::new_tcp_server.
364 - move ->throw into the Coro class because it only works on coro objects.
365
366 4.803 Mon Nov 3 17:16:12 CET 2008
367 - (libcoro) use a global asm statement to become independent of gcc
368 otpimisations for CORO_ASM (thanks to pippijn for the idea).
369 - try to workaround yet another broken bsd, this time dragonfly.
370
371 4.802 Thu Oct 30 10:56:12 CET 2008
372 - support -fno-omit-frame-pointer on x86 with the assembly method.
373 - tune 01_unblock.t tests a bit.
374
375 4.801 Wed Oct 22 18:33:37 CEST 2008
376 - improve readline speed for very long "lines".
377 - backport to 5.8.8.
378
379 4.8 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
380 - new function Coro::AIO::aio_wait.
381 - Coro.:AIO and Coro::BDB now "use Coro::AnyEvent".
382 - greatly speed up and reduce memory usage of Coro::AIO requests.
383 - implement some other µ-optimisations.
384
385 4.749 Mon Sep 29 14:40:12 CEST 2008
386 - port to slow and broken pseudo-threaded perls. (courtesy pippijn).
387
388 4.748 Sat Sep 27 14:03:19 CEST 2008
389 - implement, but do not document, PerlIO::cede(granularity).
390 - Coro::Storable forgot to wrap Storable::pstore.
391 - work around the multitude of leaks and memory corruption
392 bugs in PerlIO::via by using our own C-level perliol. As a side
393 effect, Coro::Storable is now much, much, much faster.
394
395 4.747 Tue Sep 23 01:59:41 CEST 2008
396 - fix a per-cv memleak (one empty array was leaked per
397 code reference).
398 - avoid a crash in coro->call|rss when the coroutine was already
399 destroyed (most noticably when using Coro::Debug::ps :)
400 - also protect *Storable::FILE.
401 - push up default storable granularity to 20ms.
402
403 4.746 Sun Sep 21 03:22:20 CEST 2008
404 - be more insistent on locking Storable against reentrancy
405 in Coro::Storable.
406 - move swap_def?v and throw to Coro::State, as documented.
407
408 4.745 Thu Jul 24 00:14:38 CEST 2008
409 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to
410 make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves
411 outdated software). Reported by John S.
412
413 4.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008
414 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented.
415 - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current
416 implementations inside perl work fine for us.
417
418 4.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008
419 - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could
420 result in busy-waiting for events, this has been fixed.
421 - reduce codesize and improve performance by using EV_DEFAULT_UC.
422
423 4.742 Sat May 31 14:10:21 CEST 2008
424 - implement a workaround for (some) perl <5.8.8 versions.
425 - require EV 3.3+.
426
427 4.741 Fri May 30 23:33:09 CEST 2008
428 - tell netbsd how utterly broken their imitation of an OS is
429 and refuse to build by default if pthreads are in use.
430 - switch to "s" method on all bsd's by default, as their ucontext
431 stuff seems just too broken.
432 - fix a bug in Coro::Select.
433
434 4.74 Thu May 29 20:05:31 CEST 2008
435 - do not test Coro::LWP for lack of dependencies.
436 - do not test Coro::Select for lack of working perls.
437
438 4.73 Thu May 29 2008
439 - fix a bug in Coro::EV which would cause it to block despite
440 there being runnable coroutines.
441 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress
442 warnings for some other modules.
443 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
444
445 4.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008
446 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way
447 to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :(
448 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to
449 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...).
450 - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented
451 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage
452 of AnyEvent's workaround for that problem.
453 - use AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking in Coro::Handle to work around
454 a common perl implementation bug on windows.
455 - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around
456 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by
457 tcp sockets on windows. ugh.)
458
459 4.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008
460 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()").
461 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util.
462 - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP.
463 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother
464 scheduling.
465
466 4.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
467 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
468 - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
469 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
470 - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
471 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
472 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
473 use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
474
475 4.6 Sat Apr 26 10:05:14 CEST 2008
476 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported
477 by the Coro module. It was a mistake to have it in the first place.
478 - (experimental) support for activestate perl 5.10 (method "w").
479 - (experimental) support for strawberry perl (method "a").
480 - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to,
481 actual impact unknown.
482
483 4.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008
484 - make it compile again on 5.8.
485
486 4.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008
487 - I did it twice! (see 4.49).
488
489 4.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008
490 - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they
491 were compiled on 5.8 only.
492
493 4.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
494 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
495 the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
496 (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
497 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
498
499 4.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
500 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
501 and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
502 leading to crashes and worse.
503 - document force_cctx.
504
505 4.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
506 - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
507 to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
508
509 4.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
510 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
511 downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
512 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
513 (also add testcase).
514 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
515 apparently having loads of fun with that).
516 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
517
518 4.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
519 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
520 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
521 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
522 - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
523 Andreas König.
524
525 4.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
526 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
527 "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
528
529 4.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
530 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
531 trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
532
533 4.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
534 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
535 from longmess and also skips the innermost
536 stackframes, giving more useufl output.
537 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
538 at a <1% speed hit.
539 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
540 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
541
542 4.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
543 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
544
545 4.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
546 - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
547
548 4.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
549 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
550 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
551 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
552
553 4.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
554 - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
555
556 4.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
557 - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
558 when the stack changed.
559 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
560 (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
561 if available.
562 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
563 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
564 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
565
566 4.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
567 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
568 and Coro::Handle.
569
570 4.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
571 - fix a spurious memory read.
572 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
573
574 4.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
575 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
576 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
577 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
578 - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
579 does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
580 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
581 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
582 directly supported by Coro.
583 - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
584 stuff in Coro::Util.
585 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
586 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
587 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
588
589 4.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
590 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
591 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
592 $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
593 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
594 instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
595 This also catches recursive invocations.
596 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
597
598 4.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
599 - port to threaded perls.
600
601 4.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
602 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
603 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
604 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
605 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
606 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
607 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
608 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
609 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
610 speeds up context switching a bit.
611 - further tune default stack sizes.
612 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
613 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
614 resulting in races between coroutines.
615 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
616 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
617 an unrelated coroutine.
618 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
619 more detail in Coro::State.
620 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
621 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
622 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
623 invalidating pointers.
624
625 4.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
626 - added Coro::throw method.
627 - minor code cleanups.
628
629 4.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
630 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
631 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
632 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
633 or use tracing).
634 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
635 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
636 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
637
638 4.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
639 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
640 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
641
642 4.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
643 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
644 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
645 debugging, tracing and much more.
646 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
647 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
648 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
649 flags.
650 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
651 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
652 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
653 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
654 - added Coro::killall.
655 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
656 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
657 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
658 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
659 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
660 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
661 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
662 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
663 - many minor tweaks.
664
665 3.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
666 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
667
668 3.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
669 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
670 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
671
672 3.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
673 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
674 pst's sometimes.
675 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
676 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
677 be threadsafe...).
678 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
679 but stateful semantics.
680 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
681 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
682
683 3.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
684 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
685 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
686 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
687 (EXPERIMENTAL).
688 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
689 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
690 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
691 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
692
693 3.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
694 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
695 it by default.
696 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
697 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
698 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
699 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
700 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
701 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
702 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
703 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
704 performance.
705
706 3.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
707 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
708 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
709
710 3.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
711 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
712 them without asking.
713
714 3.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
715 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
716 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
717 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
718 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
719 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
720 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
721
722 3.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
723 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
724 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
725 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
726 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
727 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
728 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
729 obsolete platforms.
730
731 3.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
732 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
733 but was rather flaky in practise.
734 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
735 it was reused.
736 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
737 in cede_notself.
738
739 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
740 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
741 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
742 documented and - hopefully - improved.
743 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
744 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
745 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
746 that could errronously trigger.
747 - fix various large and small memleaks.
748 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
749 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
750 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
751 - added Coro::guard function.
752 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
753 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
754 and 128k coros with async_pool).
755 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
756
757 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
758 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
759 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
760 - simplify configuration for users.
761 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
762 their coro replacements.
763
764 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
765 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
766 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
767 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
768 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
769 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
770 - save/restore tainted status.
771 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
772
773 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
774 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
775 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
776 - give a better error message on deadlock.
777 - document Coro::nready.
778 - enhanced testsuite.
779
780 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
781 - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
782
783 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
784 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
785 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
786 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
787 pool (size currently hardcoded).
788 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
789 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
790 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
791 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
792 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
793 check for changed watchers.
794 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
795 per event.
796 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
797 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
798 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
799 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
800 some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
801 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
802 directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
803 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
804 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
805 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
806 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
807 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
808 - updated to newest libcoro.
809 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
810 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
811 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
812 and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
813 if somebody asks for it :)
814 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
815 spuriously without the event having happened.
816
817 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
818 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
819 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
820 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
821 make LWP non-blocking.
822 - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
823 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
824 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
825 - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
826 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
827 - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
828 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
829 by LWP(!!).
830 - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
831 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
832 kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
833 did already.
834
835 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
836 - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
837 zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
838 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
839 (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
840 - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
841 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
842 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
843 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
844
845 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
846 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
847
848 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
849
850 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
851 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
852 mark & sweep gc run.
853 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
854
855 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
856 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
857 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
858
859 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
860 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
861 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
862 wrong package.
863 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
864 perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
865 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
866 normally uses.
867 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
868
869 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
870 - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
871
872 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
873 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
874 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
875 - strict'ify some modules.
876 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
877 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
878 - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
879
880 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
881 - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
882 when 'l'inux method was used.
883
884 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
885 - some portability fixes/workarounds.
886
887 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
888 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
889 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
890 Coro::State::flush method.
891 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
892
893 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
894 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
895 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
896 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
897 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
898 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
899
900 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
901 - change of contact address.
902
903 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
904 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
905 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
906
907 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
908 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
909 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
910 padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
911
912 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
913 - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
914
915 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
916 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
917 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
918 as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
919 Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
920 between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
921 fixable).
922 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
923
924 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
925 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
926 faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
927 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
928 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
929 observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
930 of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
931 pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
932 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
933 - fix for threaded perl.
934
935 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
936 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
937 memory leaks.
938 - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
939 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
940 hopefully ignoring it "just works".
941
942 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
943 - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
944 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
945
946 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
947 - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
948 of new features.
949 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
950 Highly correct stuff, that is...
951 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
952 the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
953
954 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
955 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
956 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
957 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
958 so preselect it.
959
960 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
961 - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
962 on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
963
964 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
965 - added a README.linux-glibc.
966 - new module Coro::Select.
967 - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
968 (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
969 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
970
971 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
972 - made lazy context switching the default.
973 - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
974 was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
975 - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
976 - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
977
978 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
979 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
980 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
981 - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
982 ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
983 - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
984 of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
985
986 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
987 - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
988 - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
989 could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
990
991 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
992 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
993 (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
994 without Event, which freezes).
995
996 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
997 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
998
999 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
1000 - some tests for Event.
1001 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
1002 and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
1003 new ones.
1004 - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
1005 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
1006
1007 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
1008 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
1009 patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
1010 - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
1011
1012 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
1013 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
1014 could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
1015 error.
1016 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
1017 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
1018 - implemented terminate with args + join.
1019
1020 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
1021 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
1022 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
1023 in various modules.
1024 - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
1025 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
1026
1027 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
1028 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
1029 inside Coro::Handle.
1030 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
1031 speed reasons.
1032 - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
1033 sjlj and ucontext should now work.
1034 - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
1035 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
1036 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
1037 - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
1038 under some circumstances.
1039 - other bugfixes.
1040
1041 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
1042 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
1043 - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
1044 - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
1045 - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
1046 - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
1047 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
1048 syntax.
1049 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
1050 - new simple priority system.
1051 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
1052 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
1053
1054 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
1055 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
1056 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
1057 (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
1058 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
1059 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
1060 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
1061 "Callback called exit" messages).
1062 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
1063 - much better Coro::Socket support.
1064
1065 0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
1066 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
1067 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
1068 should work well in practise ;)
1069 - added Coro::RWLock.
1070 - Coro::Specific now works.
1071
1072 0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
1073 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
1074 - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
1075 - new module Coro::Socket.
1076
1077 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
1078 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
1079 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
1080 for yield.
1081 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
1082 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
1083 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
1084 perl-5.6.
1085 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
1086 - the idle process is now overriden
1087 by default in Coro::Event.
1088 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
1089 - canceling events now works in all cases.
1090 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
1091 - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
1092 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
1093 non-blocking i/o.
1094 - performance tuning.
1095
1096 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
1097 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
1098 - add Coro::State::flush function.
1099 - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
1100 - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
1101 - continuations have a saner syntax.
1102 - no more memleaks.
1103
1104 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
1105 - release candidate 1 ;)
1106 - slightly nicer code.
1107 - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
1108
1109 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
1110 - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
1111 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
1112 see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
1113 chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
1114 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
1115 - Coro::Event now works (haha).
1116
1117 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
1118 - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
1119 - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
1120
1121 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
1122 - @_ is now properly localized.
1123 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
1124 - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
1125 - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
1126 coroutine-specific vars.
1127 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
1128
1129 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
1130 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
1131 - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
1132 - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
1133 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
1134 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
1135 model. Still crude and subject to change.
1136 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
1137
1138 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
1139 - implemented "async" attribute.
1140 - $_ and $@ are now localized.
1141 - added Coro::Channel.
1142 - more testcases, still no docs.
1143
1144 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
1145 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
1146