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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 that is being cancelled tries to block
8 (e.g. while executing a guard block), instead of crashing or
9 deadlocking.
10 - implement a Coro->safe_cancel method that might fail, but
11 cancels in a "safer" way if it succeeds.
12 - implement Coro->cancel in XS for a 20% speed improvement, and to
13 be able to implement mutual cancellation.
14 - speed up context switches by a percent or two by more efficiently
15 allocating context stack entries.
16 - cancelling a coro while it itself is cancelling another coro is
17 now supported and working, instead of triggering an assertion.
18 - be a bit more crash-resistant when calling (buggy) on_destroy
19 callbacks (best effort).
20 - move on_destroy into the slf_frame, to allow extension slf
21 functions to have destructors.
22
23 5.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011
24 - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to
25 work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to
26 my attention by Max Maischein).
27 - fix some portability issues when Time::HiRes was used.
28
29 5.371 Mon Feb 21 14:36:08 CET 2011
30 - backport to windows process emulation code again.
31
32 5.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011
33 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
34 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
35 introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
36 - no longer use Time::HiRes if gettimeofday is available, which
37 saves quite a lot of memory.
38
39 5.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
40 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
41 Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
42 method call.
43 - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
44 - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
45 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
46 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
47
48 5.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
49 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
50 working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
51 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
52 with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
53
54 5.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
55 - port to the EV 4.0 API.
56 - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
57 out of the box.
58 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
59 so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
60 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
61
62 5.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
63 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
64 Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
65 Waldorf).
66 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
67
68 5.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
69 - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
70 (testcase by Marc Mims).
71 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
72 are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
73 functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
74 fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
75 with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
76 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
77 modules could have provided their own idle coro already
78 (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
79 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
80 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
81
82 5.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
83 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
84 together.
85 - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
86 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
87 the most common source of confusion.
88 - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
89 - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
90 older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
91 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
92
93 5.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
94 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
95 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
96 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
97 - new method $state->swap_sv.
98 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
99 after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
100 salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
101 were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
102 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
103 and maybe well enough for others to understand.
104 - use common::sense everywhere now.
105 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
106 - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
107
108 5.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
109 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
110 when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
111 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
112 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
113 setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
114 - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
115
116 5.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
117 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
118 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
119
120 5.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
121 - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
122 used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
123 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
124 not on demand.
125 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
126
127 5.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
128 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
129 when no threads had been readied between detecting
130 the event loop and actually running it.
131 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
132 of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
133 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
134 (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
135 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
136 and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
137 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
138 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
139 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
140 for hardcode select overriding.
141
142 5.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
143 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
144 Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
145 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
146
147 5.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
148 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
149 AnyEvent::Socket instead.
150 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
151 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
152 to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
153 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
154 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
155 reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
156 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
157 (Coro::State::enable_times).
158
159 5.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
160 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
161 as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
162 idle_upto).
163 - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
164 - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
165 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
166 avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
167 had already been freed.
168 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
169 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
170 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
171 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
172 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
173 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
174 Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
175 (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
176 - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
177 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
178 - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
179 (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
180
181 5.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
182 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
183 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
184 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
185 should support a prepare callback.
186
187 5.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
188 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
189 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
190 the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
191
192 5.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
193 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
194 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
195 spurious warnings.
196 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
197 - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
198 - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
199 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
200 - deprecate Coro::guard.
201 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
202 testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
203 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
204 - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
205 - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
206 when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
207 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
208 to avoid needless segfaults.
209
210 5.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
211 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
212 compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
213 openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
214 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
215 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
216 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
217 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
218 - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
219 destruction.
220 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
221 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
222 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
223 - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
224 pthreads fare better?).
225 - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
226
227 5.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
228 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
229 working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
230 it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
231
232 5.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
233 - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
234 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
235 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
236 and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
237 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
238 LWP data transfers.
239 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
240 correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
241 objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
242 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
243 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably
244 doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
245 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
246 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
247 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
248 do not have this method (and don't need it either).
249 - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
250 callbacks.
251 - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
252 others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
253 through the idle threads now.
254 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
255 - eg/event was pretty broken.
256 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
257
258 5.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
259 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
260 stability issues.
261 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
262 - removed timed_* functions - they were not being used anyways
263 and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
264 and were annoying to support anyways :)
265 - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem method instead.
266 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
267 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
268 ("Attempt to unreference...").
269 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
270 was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
271 would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where
272 it was available but waiters were still blocked).
273 - calling throw on a coroutine that is waiting for a semaphore will
274 no longer make it acquire the semaphore (and thus leak a count).
275 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported
276 anymore.
277 - new functions Coro::rouse_cb and Coro::rouse_wait for easier
278 conversion of callback-style to blocking-style.
279 - new methods $coro->schedule_to and ->cede_to, to specifically
280 schedule or cede to a specific coroutine.
281 - new function Coro::Semaphore::wait.
282 - use named constants in Coro::Channel (Richard Hundt).
283 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede,
284 transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but
285 more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of
286 entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from
287 those functions and atcually create new ones.
288 - take advantage of __builtin_frame_address on gcc.
289 - expose THX in coroapi (not sure whether this was a wise decision,
290 as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways).
291 - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes
292 it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS.
293 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a
294 factor of two.
295 - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a
296 factor of three.
297 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of
298 four and reduce its memory usage considerably.
299 - implement Coro::SemaphoreSet purely in terms of Coro::Semaphore,
300 for a nice speedup and vastly more correct behaviour. Also implement
301 a new method "sem" to get at the underlying semaphore object.
302 - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate
303 (in comparison) 20-40% speedup.
304 - used new SLF interface to reimplement Coro::Signal gaining
305 some unknown (because I was too lazy), but certain, speedup, and also
306 making signals reliable for the first time.
307 - used new SLF interface and other optimisations to speed up async_pool
308 by a factor of two. It also doesn't rely on perl's exception mechanism
309 to exit anymore. The overhead for terminating an async_pool, coro over
310 a normal async is now very small.
311 - sped up coroutine creation/destruction by 40%.
312 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years.
313 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
314 pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
315 - use new rouse functions to speed up and simplify Coro::BDB.
316 - make "prefer perl native functions" work with threaded perls.
317 - condense Coro::Debug ps output, hint at v and w flags.
318 - (libcoro) lots of minor cleanups and portability improvements.
319
320 4.914 Wed Nov 19 12:54:18 CET 2008
321 - fix a disastrous bug in the readline optimisation
322 introduced in 4.801.
323
324 4.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008
325 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
326 ("Attempt to unreference...").
327
328 4.912 Thu Nov 13 18:31:23 CET 2008
329 - minor cleanups.
330 - use much larger stacks on linux and perl < 5.8.8.
331 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server did not unlink the socket
332 when destroyed.
333
334 4.911 Tue Nov 11 04:26:17 CET 2008
335 - "port" to threaded perls.
336
337 4.91 Mon Nov 10 05:36:38 CET 2008
338 - the ->throw exception object no longer leaks.
339 - creating a new cctx leaked a scopestack entry (memleak).
340 - new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field
341 (unknown impact).
342 - calling ->throw on a not-yet-started coroutine should now work
343 instead of being ignored.
344 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
345 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
346 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
347
348 4.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008
349 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
350 - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
351 also speed it up considerably.
352 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
353 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
354 - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
355 - Coro::State::cctx_stacksize wasn't applied correctly.
356 - new function Coro::State::cctx_max_idle.
357 - the default max number of idle C contexts is now 4.
358 - (libcoro) try harder to get _setjmp/_longjmp.
359 - (libcoro) cleanup and extend the libcoro API to officially
360 allow the creation of empty source contexts.
361 - very experimental workaround for the totally broken netbsd platform.
362 - tried to hack around openbsd bugs.
363
364 4.804 Wed Nov 5 16:36:00 CET 2008
365 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server would not create a non-blocking listening
366 socket, sometimes causing freezes.
367 - (libcoro) fix misaligned stack points for setjmp and assembly
368 methods, which can cause crashes on x86/x86_64 with a sufficiently
369 aggressive compiler.
370 - new function: Coro::Debug::new_tcp_server.
371 - move ->throw into the Coro class because it only works on coro objects.
372
373 4.803 Mon Nov 3 17:16:12 CET 2008
374 - (libcoro) use a global asm statement to become independent of gcc
375 otpimisations for CORO_ASM (thanks to pippijn for the idea).
376 - try to workaround yet another broken bsd, this time dragonfly.
377
378 4.802 Thu Oct 30 10:56:12 CET 2008
379 - support -fno-omit-frame-pointer on x86 with the assembly method.
380 - tune 01_unblock.t tests a bit.
381
382 4.801 Wed Oct 22 18:33:37 CEST 2008
383 - improve readline speed for very long "lines".
384 - backport to 5.8.8.
385
386 4.8 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
387 - new function Coro::AIO::aio_wait.
388 - Coro.:AIO and Coro::BDB now "use Coro::AnyEvent".
389 - greatly speed up and reduce memory usage of Coro::AIO requests.
390 - implement some other µ-optimisations.
391
392 4.749 Mon Sep 29 14:40:12 CEST 2008
393 - port to slow and broken pseudo-threaded perls. (courtesy pippijn).
394
395 4.748 Sat Sep 27 14:03:19 CEST 2008
396 - implement, but do not document, PerlIO::cede(granularity).
397 - Coro::Storable forgot to wrap Storable::pstore.
398 - work around the multitude of leaks and memory corruption
399 bugs in PerlIO::via by using our own C-level perliol. As a side
400 effect, Coro::Storable is now much, much, much faster.
401
402 4.747 Tue Sep 23 01:59:41 CEST 2008
403 - fix a per-cv memleak (one empty array was leaked per
404 code reference).
405 - avoid a crash in coro->call|rss when the coroutine was already
406 destroyed (most noticably when using Coro::Debug::ps :)
407 - also protect *Storable::FILE.
408 - push up default storable granularity to 20ms.
409
410 4.746 Sun Sep 21 03:22:20 CEST 2008
411 - be more insistent on locking Storable against reentrancy
412 in Coro::Storable.
413 - move swap_def?v and throw to Coro::State, as documented.
414
415 4.745 Thu Jul 24 00:14:38 CEST 2008
416 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to
417 make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves
418 outdated software). Reported by John S.
419
420 4.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008
421 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented.
422 - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current
423 implementations inside perl work fine for us.
424
425 4.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008
426 - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could
427 result in busy-waiting for events, this has been fixed.
428 - reduce codesize and improve performance by using EV_DEFAULT_UC.
429
430 4.742 Sat May 31 14:10:21 CEST 2008
431 - implement a workaround for (some) perl <5.8.8 versions.
432 - require EV 3.3+.
433
434 4.741 Fri May 30 23:33:09 CEST 2008
435 - tell netbsd how utterly broken their imitation of an OS is
436 and refuse to build by default if pthreads are in use.
437 - switch to "s" method on all bsd's by default, as their ucontext
438 stuff seems just too broken.
439 - fix a bug in Coro::Select.
440
441 4.74 Thu May 29 20:05:31 CEST 2008
442 - do not test Coro::LWP for lack of dependencies.
443 - do not test Coro::Select for lack of working perls.
444
445 4.73 Thu May 29 2008
446 - fix a bug in Coro::EV which would cause it to block despite
447 there being runnable coroutines.
448 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress
449 warnings for some other modules.
450 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
451
452 4.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008
453 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way
454 to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :(
455 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to
456 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...).
457 - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented
458 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage
459 of AnyEvent's workaround for that problem.
460 - use AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking in Coro::Handle to work around
461 a common perl implementation bug on windows.
462 - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around
463 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by
464 tcp sockets on windows. ugh.)
465
466 4.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008
467 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()").
468 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util.
469 - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP.
470 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother
471 scheduling.
472
473 4.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
474 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
475 - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
476 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
477 - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
478 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
479 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
480 use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
481
482 4.6 Sat Apr 26 10:05:14 CEST 2008
483 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported
484 by the Coro module. It was a mistake to have it in the first place.
485 - (experimental) support for activestate perl 5.10 (method "w").
486 - (experimental) support for strawberry perl (method "a").
487 - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to,
488 actual impact unknown.
489
490 4.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008
491 - make it compile again on 5.8.
492
493 4.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008
494 - I did it twice! (see 4.49).
495
496 4.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008
497 - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they
498 were compiled on 5.8 only.
499
500 4.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
501 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
502 the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
503 (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
504 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
505
506 4.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
507 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
508 and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
509 leading to crashes and worse.
510 - document force_cctx.
511
512 4.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
513 - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
514 to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
515
516 4.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
517 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
518 downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
519 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
520 (also add testcase).
521 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
522 apparently having loads of fun with that).
523 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
524
525 4.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
526 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
527 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
528 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
529 - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
530 Andreas König.
531
532 4.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
533 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
534 "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
535
536 4.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
537 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
538 trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
539
540 4.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
541 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
542 from longmess and also skips the innermost
543 stackframes, giving more useufl output.
544 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
545 at a <1% speed hit.
546 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
547 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
548
549 4.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
550 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
551
552 4.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
553 - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
554
555 4.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
556 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
557 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
558 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
559
560 4.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
561 - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
562
563 4.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
564 - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
565 when the stack changed.
566 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
567 (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
568 if available.
569 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
570 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
571 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
572
573 4.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
574 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
575 and Coro::Handle.
576
577 4.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
578 - fix a spurious memory read.
579 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
580
581 4.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
582 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
583 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
584 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
585 - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
586 does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
587 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
588 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
589 directly supported by Coro.
590 - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
591 stuff in Coro::Util.
592 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
593 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
594 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
595
596 4.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
597 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
598 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
599 $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
600 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
601 instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
602 This also catches recursive invocations.
603 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
604
605 4.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
606 - port to threaded perls.
607
608 4.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
609 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
610 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
611 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
612 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
613 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
614 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
615 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
616 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
617 speeds up context switching a bit.
618 - further tune default stack sizes.
619 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
620 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
621 resulting in races between coroutines.
622 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
623 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
624 an unrelated coroutine.
625 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
626 more detail in Coro::State.
627 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
628 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
629 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
630 invalidating pointers.
631
632 4.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
633 - added Coro::throw method.
634 - minor code cleanups.
635
636 4.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
637 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
638 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
639 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
640 or use tracing).
641 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
642 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
643 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
644
645 4.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
646 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
647 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
648
649 4.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
650 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
651 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
652 debugging, tracing and much more.
653 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
654 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
655 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
656 flags.
657 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
658 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
659 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
660 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
661 - added Coro::killall.
662 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
663 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
664 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
665 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
666 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
667 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
668 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
669 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
670 - many minor tweaks.
671
672 3.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
673 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
674
675 3.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
676 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
677 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
678
679 3.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
680 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
681 pst's sometimes.
682 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
683 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
684 be threadsafe...).
685 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
686 but stateful semantics.
687 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
688 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
689
690 3.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
691 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
692 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
693 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
694 (EXPERIMENTAL).
695 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
696 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
697 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
698 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
699
700 3.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
701 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
702 it by default.
703 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
704 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
705 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
706 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
707 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
708 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
709 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
710 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
711 performance.
712
713 3.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
714 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
715 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
716
717 3.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
718 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
719 them without asking.
720
721 3.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
722 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
723 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
724 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
725 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
726 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
727 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
728
729 3.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
730 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
731 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
732 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
733 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
734 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
735 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
736 obsolete platforms.
737
738 3.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
739 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
740 but was rather flaky in practise.
741 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
742 it was reused.
743 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
744 in cede_notself.
745
746 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
747 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
748 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
749 documented and - hopefully - improved.
750 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
751 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
752 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
753 that could errronously trigger.
754 - fix various large and small memleaks.
755 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
756 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
757 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
758 - added Coro::guard function.
759 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
760 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
761 and 128k coros with async_pool).
762 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
763
764 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
765 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
766 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
767 - simplify configuration for users.
768 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
769 their coro replacements.
770
771 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
772 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
773 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
774 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
775 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
776 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
777 - save/restore tainted status.
778 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
779
780 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
781 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
782 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
783 - give a better error message on deadlock.
784 - document Coro::nready.
785 - enhanced testsuite.
786
787 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
788 - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
789
790 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
791 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
792 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
793 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
794 pool (size currently hardcoded).
795 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
796 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
797 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
798 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
799 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
800 check for changed watchers.
801 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
802 per event.
803 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
804 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
805 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
806 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
807 some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
808 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
809 directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
810 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
811 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
812 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
813 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
814 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
815 - updated to newest libcoro.
816 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
817 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
818 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
819 and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
820 if somebody asks for it :)
821 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
822 spuriously without the event having happened.
823
824 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
825 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
826 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
827 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
828 make LWP non-blocking.
829 - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
830 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
831 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
832 - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
833 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
834 - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
835 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
836 by LWP(!!).
837 - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
838 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
839 kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
840 did already.
841
842 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
843 - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
844 zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
845 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
846 (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
847 - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
848 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
849 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
850 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
851
852 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
853 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
854
855 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
856
857 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
858 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
859 mark & sweep gc run.
860 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
861
862 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
863 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
864 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
865
866 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
867 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
868 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
869 wrong package.
870 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
871 perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
872 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
873 normally uses.
874 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
875
876 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
877 - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
878
879 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
880 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
881 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
882 - strict'ify some modules.
883 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
884 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
885 - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
886
887 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
888 - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
889 when 'l'inux method was used.
890
891 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
892 - some portability fixes/workarounds.
893
894 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
895 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
896 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
897 Coro::State::flush method.
898 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
899
900 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
901 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
902 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
903 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
904 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
905 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
906
907 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
908 - change of contact address.
909
910 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
911 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
912 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
913
914 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
915 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
916 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
917 padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
918
919 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
920 - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
921
922 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
923 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
924 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
925 as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
926 Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
927 between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
928 fixable).
929 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
930
931 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
932 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
933 faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
934 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
935 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
936 observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
937 of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
938 pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
939 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
940 - fix for threaded perl.
941
942 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
943 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
944 memory leaks.
945 - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
946 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
947 hopefully ignoring it "just works".
948
949 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
950 - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
951 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
952
953 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
954 - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
955 of new features.
956 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
957 Highly correct stuff, that is...
958 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
959 the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
960
961 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
962 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
963 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
964 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
965 so preselect it.
966
967 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
968 - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
969 on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
970
971 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
972 - added a README.linux-glibc.
973 - new module Coro::Select.
974 - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
975 (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
976 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
977
978 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
979 - made lazy context switching the default.
980 - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
981 was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
982 - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
983 - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
984
985 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
986 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
987 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
988 - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
989 ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
990 - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
991 of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
992
993 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
994 - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
995 - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
996 could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
997
998 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
999 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
1000 (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
1001 without Event, which freezes).
1002
1003 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
1004 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
1005
1006 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
1007 - some tests for Event.
1008 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
1009 and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
1010 new ones.
1011 - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
1012 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
1013
1014 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
1015 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
1016 patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
1017 - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
1018
1019 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
1020 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
1021 could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
1022 error.
1023 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
1024 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
1025 - implemented terminate with args + join.
1026
1027 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
1028 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
1029 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
1030 in various modules.
1031 - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
1032 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
1033
1034 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
1035 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
1036 inside Coro::Handle.
1037 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
1038 speed reasons.
1039 - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
1040 sjlj and ucontext should now work.
1041 - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
1042 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
1043 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
1044 - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
1045 under some circumstances.
1046 - other bugfixes.
1047
1048 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
1049 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
1050 - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
1051 - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
1052 - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
1053 - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
1054 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
1055 syntax.
1056 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
1057 - new simple priority system.
1058 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
1059 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
1060
1061 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
1062 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
1063 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
1064 (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
1065 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
1066 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
1067 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
1068 "Callback called exit" messages).
1069 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
1070 - much better Coro::Socket support.
1071
1072 0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
1073 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
1074 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
1075 should work well in practise ;)
1076 - added Coro::RWLock.
1077 - Coro::Specific now works.
1078
1079 0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
1080 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
1081 - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
1082 - new module Coro::Socket.
1083
1084 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
1085 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
1086 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
1087 for yield.
1088 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
1089 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
1090 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
1091 perl-5.6.
1092 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
1093 - the idle process is now overriden
1094 by default in Coro::Event.
1095 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
1096 - canceling events now works in all cases.
1097 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
1098 - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
1099 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
1100 non-blocking i/o.
1101 - performance tuning.
1102
1103 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
1104 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
1105 - add Coro::State::flush function.
1106 - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
1107 - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
1108 - continuations have a saner syntax.
1109 - no more memleaks.
1110
1111 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
1112 - release candidate 1 ;)
1113 - slightly nicer code.
1114 - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
1115
1116 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
1117 - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
1118 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
1119 see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
1120 chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
1121 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
1122 - Coro::Event now works (haha).
1123
1124 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
1125 - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
1126 - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
1127
1128 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
1129 - @_ is now properly localized.
1130 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
1131 - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
1132 - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
1133 coroutine-specific vars.
1134 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
1135
1136 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
1137 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
1138 - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
1139 - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
1140 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
1141 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
1142 model. Still crude and subject to change.
1143 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
1144
1145 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
1146 - implemented "async" attribute.
1147 - $_ and $@ are now localized.
1148 - added Coro::Channel.
1149 - more testcases, still no docs.
1150
1151 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
1152 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
1153