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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: __GCC_HAVE_DWARF2_CFI_ASM
6 TODO: swap_sv, maybe add scope_swap_sv?
7 TODO: croak when async_pool tries to run canceled thread?
8 TODO: how to debug safe_cancel failure (vebrose mode? show how to make backtrace?)
9 TODO: scalar context for Coro::AIO wrappers?
10
11 TODO: State.xs could short-circuit some macros such as CORO_EXECUTE_SLF
12 TODO: use frame->destroy to improve Coro::EV
13 6.57
14 - override AnyEvent condvar methods "properly", as AnyEvent
15 has support for pluggable condvars since 2011...
16 - allow rouse_wait to be called in a different thread.
17 - slightly clarify rouse_cb/rouse_wait documentation.
18 - slightly improve rouse callback performance and memory usage.
19 - try to report correct calller when throwing exception in
20 on $condvar->recv, not a useless line in Coro::AnyEvent.
21
22 6.56 Thu Feb 20 19:40:07 CET 2020
23 - Coro::EV::time*once functions used ev_once, which is not cancelable.
24 This could cause problems due to I/O watchers not being stopped up
25 on exceptions/cancellation.
26
27 6.55 Fri Jul 19 17:28:09 CEST 2019
28 - Coro::RWLock woke up only one reader instead of all after a wrlock
29 (analyzed and patch by Maxim Skorobogatov).
30 - slightly improved documentation of Coro::RWLock and RWLock testcase.
31 - quickly (re)-ported to minix 3.3 before minix crashed again.
32
33 6.54 Sun Dec 16 11:06:07 CET 2018
34 - reinstate Coro::Select::select prototype - it breaks more than it fixes.
35
36 6.53 Sun Dec 16 10:33:15 CET 2018
37 - the autogenerated prototypes of Coro::AIO now add ";" at the end
38 to avoid generating named unary operators and messing up parsing
39 (mostly affects aio_mlockall 4 | 8 which was parsed as
40 (aio_mlockall 4) | 8).
41 - do not use a prototype for select in Coro::Select, as CORE::select also
42 doesn't have one.
43
44 6.52 Tue Aug 14 18:49:43 CEST 2018
45 - libcoro update: allow sharing of coro threads using the pthreads
46 backend among different pthreads, as is required by Coro::Multicore.
47 - always allow ->call and ->eval when the coro is the current coroutine. this
48 makes it possible, among other things, to call these on $Coro::main.
49 - minor code cleanups.
50
51 6.514 Thu Aug 31 18:25:31 CEST 2017
52 - safe_cancel no longer croaks when called on already-destroyed
53 thread, but instead "just works".
54
55 6.513 Sat Jul 15 01:18:51 CEST 2017
56 - experimental 5.22 comaptibility changes (PadlistNAMES).
57 - removed attributes example and made sure the other examples
58 still work.
59 - fix some statevar types for newer perls, should be of no consequence.
60
61 6.512 Fri Jul 14 05:03:17 CEST 2017
62 - seems to pass test suite down till 5.8.9, so make this the
63 minimum requirement in Makefile.PL.
64 - experimental 5.24 compatibility changes (SUB_ARGARRAY).
65 - experimental 5.26 compatibility changes (PL_comppad -> PADOFFSET).
66 - disable FORTIFY_SOURCE to avoid broken (but well-intentioned)
67 fortified longjmp variants in some libcs.
68 - re-try JIT allocation without PROT_EXEC, to hopefully improve
69 portability (still doesn't seem to work around broken selinux
70 mmap everywhere).
71 - speling fixes (Xavier Guimard).
72
73 6.511 Sun Jun 26 23:44:50 CEST 2016
74 - make it compile with threaded perls again.
75 - simplify and speed up __DIE__ and __WARN__ handling.
76
77 6.51 Sat Jun 25 20:57:20 CEST 2016
78 - 6.5 release didn't compile on most older perls due to
79 a logic error enabling experimental 5.24 code for all versions.
80 - since various broken or deficient patches float around
81 to work around the vtbl API breakage in perl, let's provide
82 our own workaround, which seems to be much less invasive
83 and more compatible than the approaches seen so far. YMMV.
84 - work around assertion failure in perl_destruct on 5.24
85 (analyzed by Dave Mitchell).
86
87 6.5 Wed Jun 22 22:23:50 CEST 2016
88 - swap_sv swapping order was not symmetrical, causing
89 wrong swaps when swap_sv was used multiple times on the
90 same sv in the same thread.
91 - swap_sv calls can now be undone by calling it again
92 with the same variables.
93 - swap_sv calls will now be undone in async_pool threads.
94 - split Coro::Semaphore::up/adjust into separate xs functions
95 for better error reporting, at slight codesize increase.
96 - (libcoro) arm assembly support, please test and report.
97 - adjust to PL_savestack changes in perl 5.24 (adapted from
98 the debian patch, which unfortunately gets it wrong).
99
100 6.49 Sat Oct 17 01:40:12 CEST 2015
101 - throwing an exception to a thread waiting in
102 Coro::Handle using Coro::EV did not stop the watchers,
103 causing the next call to fail (testcase by Martin Pritchard).
104 - bump minimum perl version to 5.10.
105
106 6.48 Sun Oct 4 19:03:51 CEST 2015
107 - fix memory leak when Coro::Handle uses Coro::EV internally
108 (testcase by Sten Sten).
109 - update code to libev 4 API (internally, Coro still used the
110 version 3 API calls).
111 - remove unused hv_sig.
112
113 6.47 Sat Jul 11 03:58:20 CEST 2015
114 - swap_svs - NVs can be in the SV head beginning with 5.20.
115
116 6.46 Tue Jun 30 14:36:30 CEST 2015
117 - restore portability to perls with windows fork emulation
118 (patch by Petr Písař).
119
120 6.45 Tue Jun 30 01:40:08 CEST 2015
121 - restore portability to perl 5.16 and below.
122
123 6.44 Tue Jun 30 00:41:54 CEST 2015
124 - avoid segfaulting (or worse) when tracing a canceled thread.
125 - the Event module silently broke it's public hook API, causing
126 failures on perls compiled with -Duselongdouble. Requiring
127 the latest version of Event because I don't know which release
128 changed this (it's not mentioned in the ChangeLog).
129 - allow xs level enterleave hooks via CoroAPI.
130
131 6.43 Thu Jun 4 15:38:14 CEST 2015
132 - use stability canary.
133 - port to stableperl-5.22.0-1.001.
134 - update libecb.
135
136 6.42 Wed Feb 11 20:29:52 CET 2015
137 - Coro::SemaphoreSet->try did not actually work (analyzed by
138 SATO Kentaro).
139 - upgrade libecb to be C11 compliant.
140
141 6.41 Sat Sep 6 22:08:46 CEST 2014
142 - restore portability to perl 5.8.x.
143 - give new Coro's a valid GvHV(PL_hintgv) - this is slow and takes
144 up some memory, but fixes "use feature" and similar modules
145 when used inside a Coro.
146 - allow zero as argument to Coro::Channel to mean the same thing
147 as no argument. this works with older versions as well,
148 but wasn't legal until now.
149 - slightly better c header file detection.
150
151 6.39 Mon Jun 2 00:00:08 CEST 2014
152 - work around more incompatible changes in 5.20.
153
154 6.38 Sun Jun 1 21:54:23 CEST 2014
155 - check that perl slots actually have enough space to hold
156 interpreter variables.
157 - untested port to perl 5.19 (64 bit tmps indices) (reported
158 by Andreas König).
159 - croak when cancel is called without a thread context.
160
161 6.37 Tue Mar 4 13:27:33 CET 2014
162 - *sigh*, removed leftover debugging code from debugging a
163 perl bug, of all things.
164
165 6.36 Tue Mar 4 07:11:59 CET 2014
166 - semaphores would not clear the destroy hook when interrupted
167 by ->throw, causing segfaults or worse.
168 - ->throw on a thread waiting for a semaphore did not acquire
169 the semaphore, but also didn't wake up other waiters,
170 possibly causing a deadlock.
171 - "FATAL: $Coro::IDLE blocked itself" will now use Carp::confess
172 to report a full stacktrace, which should help find out
173 where the actual call is.
174 - "atomically" destroy data in slf_destroy, because it is
175 the right thing to do, just in case.
176 - disable ecb.h libm dependency, to compile on ancient systems
177 or under adverse conditions.
178
179 6.33 Mon Nov 18 11:26:27 CET 2013
180 - do not crash when freeing padlists with holes (in 5.18).
181 - tentative SVt_BIND 5.19 port/fix.
182
183 6.32 Tue Nov 5 15:35:35 CET 2013
184 - use a new algorithm to derive padlists for perl 5.18. The old
185 one could lead to 0-pointer accesses inside perl (reported
186 by Darin McBride).
187
188 6.31 Thu May 9 07:39:48 CEST 2013
189 - Coro::AIO requests would crash if the thread was ready'd
190 while the request was ongoing.
191
192 6.29 Wed May 8 02:55:18 CEST 2013
193 - when an on_destroy handler destructs the coro currently being
194 destructed a perl scalar could be accessed after being freed,
195 likely causing a crash.
196
197 6.28 Wed Mar 6 06:58:02 CET 2013
198 - clean remnants of existing __DIE__ and __WARN__ handlers so
199 they lose their magic and will not cause segfaults later
200 (testcase by Andrey Sagulin).
201 - improved Coro::State documentation a bit.
202 - Coro::Debug::command now flushes the output.
203 - add hack detection code for x32 abi, because the braindead slugs
204 who designed that made it look exactly like x86_64 without
205 providing proper compile time symbols to test for it. as a result,
206 this detection cannot work reliably.
207 - valgrind stack registering was broken.
208 - do not rely on Time::HiRes anymore in Coro::Debug.
209
210 6.23 Fri Dec 7 23:36:37 CET 2012
211 - use experimental fiber implementation on native windows
212 perls.
213 - use sizeof (void *) as multiplication factor for stack sizes,
214 to accomodate the totally braindamaged microsoft 64 bit "os".
215 - changed verifier host from win2k-ap510-32 to win7-sp516-32/64.
216 activeperl 5.16 crashes when PerlIO_define_layer is called due
217 to some bug in the perl dll, strawberry perl at least passes
218 the testsuite.
219 - implement Coro::Handle->peeraddr/host/port, for slightly
220 improved compatibility with LWP.
221 - implement 5.17 compatibility by almost blindly applying a
222 good-looking patch by Father Chrysostomos.
223 - move stack management functions into libcoro 3.
224 - libcoro version 3 "released".
225 - support magic values as timed_io_once args.
226 - recommend AnyEvent 7+ or EV 4+, also require EV
227 version 4 or newer for Coro::EV.
228
229 6.10 Tue Oct 9 01:14:27 CEST 2012
230 - updated ecb.h, it had a typo that caused it to not compile on many
231 big endian systems (reported by many people).
232 - disable memory fences in ecb.h to improve portability.
233
234 6.09 Sat Oct 6 23:25:02 CEST 2012
235 - Coro::EV I/O watchers were not interruptible by exceptions
236 (Coro::State::throw) (testcase by sten).
237 - ->throw now puts threads into the ready queue, as this seems to
238 be expected by existing code, and code that doesn't cope with spurious
239 wakeups needs fixing anyway.
240 - use fd -1 in mmap.
241 - cast I32 to int in error message printf.
242 - warn about broken so-called "hardened" kernels.
243
244 6.08 Fri Apr 13 12:05:47 CEST 2012
245 - be more aggressive about exiting like perl does - formerly,
246 exiting from the non-main thread would not execute END blocks.
247
248 6.07 Fri Nov 11 21:21:48 CET 2011
249 - work around a bug in PerlIO (setting $SIG{__WARN__} to a PVCV).
250 - update ecb.h.
251
252 6.06 Mon Aug 8 23:59:48 CEST 2011
253 - cygwin unfortunately patches the stack at runtime, so we use the pthreads
254 backend, which is an order of magnitude slower. unfortunately, cygwins
255 pthread implementation isn't very complete either, so allocate the stack
256 twice just to be sure.
257 (note: cygwin also enables mymalloc, which is NOT THREADSAFE ON WINDOWS,
258 in its ithreaded perl - best recompile cygwin and use the 'w'indows
259 backend for much better performance. also disable ithreads for
260 even better performance...).
261
262 6.05 Thu Aug 4 21:36:36 CEST 2011
263 - blush, condvar values would not be propagated from send to recv anymore
264 (reported by Chip Salzenberg).
265 - use exponential increase for the readline buffer length in
266 Coro::Handle. also reduce initial allocation to 1020 from 4096 bytes.
267
268 6.04 Wed Aug 3 17:15:45 CEST 2011
269 - use even more efficient and more compatible condvars for
270 compatibility to AnyEvent 6.x :)
271 - more inconsequential ecb.h updates.
272
273 6.03 Wed Aug 3 11:41:30 CEST 2011
274 - change how Coro patches AnyEvent condvars for compatibility to
275 AnyEvent 6.x.
276 - update ecb.h, to no longer include <pthread.h> in case WinNT.h
277 hasn't been included.
278
279 6.02 Wed Jul 13 04:35:19 CEST 2011
280 - "improve portability to Gentoo" - gentoo manages to put perl variables
281 in memory areas that are farther than 2gb apart, which the jit couldn't
282 handle and barfed. now it's just a bit slower on gentoo and similar
283 systems.
284
285 6.01 Sun Jul 3 12:31:14 CEST 2011
286 - workarounds are good, but the test for whether pthreads are used
287 was not good. this one should be better.
288 - check differently whether gcc generates cfi instructions itself.
289
290 6.0 Wed Jun 29 19:43:35 CEST 2011
291 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: unreferenced coro objects will now be
292 destroyed and cleaned up automatically (e.g. async { schedule }).
293 - implement a JIT compiler for part of the thread switch code,
294 which gives a 50% speed improvement on threaded perls, and
295 about 4% on non-threaded perls (so threaded perls now finally
296 reach about half the speed of non-threaded perls).
297 - slightly modernise Coro::Intro, add section about rouse functions.
298 - avoid DEFSV and ERRSV, giving another 10% improvement
299 in thread switching.
300 - Coro::State->is_destroyed is now called is_zombie.
301 - implement a Coro->safe_cancel method that might fail, but
302 cancels in a "safer" way if it succeeds.
303 - add preliminary support for DEBUGGING perls.
304 - get rid of two hash-accesses when initialising a new Coro - this
305 speeds up coro creation by almost a factor of two.
306 - croak when a coro that is being cancelled tries to block
307 (e.g. while executing a guard block), instead of crashing or
308 deadlocking.
309 - use a more robust and also faster method to identify Coro::State
310 objects - speeds up everything a bit.
311 - implement Coro->cancel in XS for a 20% speed improvement, and to
312 be able to implement mutual cancellation.
313 - speed up context switches by a percent or two by more efficiently
314 allocating context stack entries.
315 - implement Coro->join and Coro->on_destroy in XS for a speedup and
316 a reduction in memory use.
317 - cancelling a coro while it itself is cancelling another coro is
318 now supported and working, instead of triggering an assertion.
319 - be a bit more crash-resistant when calling (buggy) on_destroy
320 callbacks (best effort).
321 - move on_destroy into the slf_frame, to allow extension slf
322 functions to have destructors.
323 - get rid if coro refcounting - simply crash in other interpreter
324 threads by nulling the pointers on clone.
325 - simplify warn/die hook handling when loading Coro - the convoluted
326 logic seems to be no longer neccessary.
327 - use libecb instead of our own home-grown gcc hacks.
328 - document alternatives to Coro::LWP. Please use them :)
329 - work around another mindless idiotic NEEDLESS bug in openbsd/mirbsds
330 sigaltstack. Really. wine suffers from it, erlang suffers from it,
331 and it's known since at least 2006.
332
333 5.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011
334 - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to
335 work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to
336 my attention by Max Maischein).
337 - fix some portability issues when Time::HiRes was used.
338
339 5.371 Mon Feb 21 14:36:08 CET 2011
340 - backport to windows process emulation code again.
341
342 5.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011
343 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
344 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
345 introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
346 - no longer use Time::HiRes if gettimeofday is available, which
347 saves quite a lot of memory.
348
349 5.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
350 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
351 Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
352 method call.
353 - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
354 - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
355 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
356 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
357
358 5.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
359 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
360 working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
361 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
362 with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
363
364 5.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
365 - port to the EV 4.0 API.
366 - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
367 out of the box.
368 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
369 so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
370 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
371
372 5.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
373 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
374 Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
375 Waldorf).
376 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
377
378 5.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
379 - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
380 (testcase by Marc Mims).
381 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
382 are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
383 functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
384 fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
385 with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
386 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
387 modules could have provided their own idle coro already
388 (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
389 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
390 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
391
392 5.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
393 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
394 together.
395 - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
396 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
397 the most common source of confusion.
398 - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
399 - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
400 older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
401 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
402
403 5.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
404 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
405 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
406 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
407 - new method $state->swap_sv.
408 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
409 after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
410 salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
411 were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
412 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
413 and maybe well enough for others to understand.
414 - use common::sense everywhere now.
415 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
416 - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
417
418 5.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
419 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
420 when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
421 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
422 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
423 setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
424 - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
425
426 5.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
427 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
428 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
429
430 5.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
431 - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
432 used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
433 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
434 not on demand.
435 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
436
437 5.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
438 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
439 when no threads had been readied between detecting
440 the event loop and actually running it.
441 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
442 of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
443 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
444 (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
445 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
446 and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
447 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
448 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
449 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
450 for hardcode select overriding.
451
452 5.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
453 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
454 Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
455 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
456
457 5.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
458 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
459 AnyEvent::Socket instead.
460 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
461 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
462 to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
463 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
464 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
465 reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
466 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
467 (Coro::State::enable_times).
468
469 5.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
470 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
471 as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
472 idle_upto).
473 - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
474 - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
475 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
476 avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
477 had already been freed.
478 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
479 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
480 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
481 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
482 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
483 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
484 Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
485 (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
486 - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
487 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
488 - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
489 (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
490
491 5.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
492 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
493 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
494 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
495 should support a prepare callback.
496
497 5.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
498 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
499 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
500 the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
501
502 5.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
503 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
504 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
505 spurious warnings.
506 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
507 - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
508 - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
509 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
510 - deprecate Coro::guard.
511 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
512 testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
513 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
514 - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
515 - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
516 when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
517 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
518 to avoid needless segfaults.
519
520 5.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
521 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
522 compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
523 openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
524 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
525 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
526 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
527 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
528 - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
529 destruction.
530 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
531 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
532 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
533 - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
534 pthreads fare better?).
535 - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
536
537 5.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
538 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
539 working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
540 it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
541
542 5.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
543 - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
544 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
545 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
546 and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
547 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
548 LWP data transfers.
549 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
550 correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
551 objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
552 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
553 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably
554 doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
555 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
556 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
557 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
558 do not have this method (and don't need it either).
559 - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
560 callbacks.
561 - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
562 others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
563 through the idle threads now.
564 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
565 - eg/event was pretty broken.
566 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
567
568 5.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
569 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
570 stability issues.
571 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
572 - removed timed_* functions - they were not being used anyways
573 and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
574 and were annoying to support anyways :)
575 - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem method instead.
576 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
577 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
578 ("Attempt to unreference...").
579 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
580 was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
581 would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where
582 it was available but waiters were still blocked).
583 - calling throw on a coroutine that is waiting for a semaphore will
584 no longer make it acquire the semaphore (and thus leak a count).
585 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported
586 anymore.
587 - new functions Coro::rouse_cb and Coro::rouse_wait for easier
588 conversion of callback-style to blocking-style.
589 - new methods $coro->schedule_to and ->cede_to, to specifically
590 schedule or cede to a specific coroutine.
591 - new function Coro::Semaphore::wait.
592 - use named constants in Coro::Channel (Richard Hundt).
593 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede,
594 transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but
595 more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of
596 entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from
597 those functions and atcually create new ones.
598 - take advantage of __builtin_frame_address on gcc.
599 - expose THX in coroapi (not sure whether this was a wise decision,
600 as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways).
601 - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes
602 it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS.
603 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a
604 factor of two.
605 - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a
606 factor of three.
607 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of
608 four and reduce its memory usage considerably.
609 - implement Coro::SemaphoreSet purely in terms of Coro::Semaphore,
610 for a nice speedup and vastly more correct behaviour. Also implement
611 a new method "sem" to get at the underlying semaphore object.
612 - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate
613 (in comparison) 20-40% speedup.
614 - used new SLF interface to reimplement Coro::Signal gaining
615 some unknown (because I was too lazy), but certain, speedup, and also
616 making signals reliable for the first time.
617 - used new SLF interface and other optimisations to speed up async_pool
618 by a factor of two. It also doesn't rely on perl's exception mechanism
619 to exit anymore. The overhead for terminating an async_pool, coro over
620 a normal async is now very small.
621 - sped up coroutine creation/destruction by 40%.
622 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years.
623 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
624 pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
625 - use new rouse functions to speed up and simplify Coro::BDB.
626 - make "prefer perl native functions" work with threaded perls.
627 - condense Coro::Debug ps output, hint at v and w flags.
628 - (libcoro) lots of minor cleanups and portability improvements.
629
630 4.914 Wed Nov 19 12:54:18 CET 2008
631 - fix a disastrous bug in the readline optimisation
632 introduced in 4.801.
633
634 4.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008
635 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
636 ("Attempt to unreference...").
637
638 4.912 Thu Nov 13 18:31:23 CET 2008
639 - minor cleanups.
640 - use much larger stacks on linux and perl < 5.8.8.
641 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server did not unlink the socket
642 when destroyed.
643
644 4.911 Tue Nov 11 04:26:17 CET 2008
645 - "port" to threaded perls.
646
647 4.91 Mon Nov 10 05:36:38 CET 2008
648 - the ->throw exception object no longer leaks.
649 - creating a new cctx leaked a scopestack entry (memleak).
650 - new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field
651 (unknown impact).
652 - calling ->throw on a not-yet-started coroutine should now work
653 instead of being ignored.
654 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
655 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
656 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
657
658 4.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008
659 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
660 - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
661 also speed it up considerably.
662 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
663 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
664 - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
665 - Coro::State::cctx_stacksize wasn't applied correctly.
666 - new function Coro::State::cctx_max_idle.
667 - the default max number of idle C contexts is now 4.
668 - (libcoro) try harder to get _setjmp/_longjmp.
669 - (libcoro) cleanup and extend the libcoro API to officially
670 allow the creation of empty source contexts.
671 - very experimental workaround for the totally broken netbsd platform.
672 - tried to hack around openbsd bugs.
673
674 4.804 Wed Nov 5 16:36:00 CET 2008
675 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server would not create a non-blocking listening
676 socket, sometimes causing freezes.
677 - (libcoro) fix misaligned stack points for setjmp and assembly
678 methods, which can cause crashes on x86/x86_64 with a sufficiently
679 aggressive compiler.
680 - new function: Coro::Debug::new_tcp_server.
681 - move ->throw into the Coro class because it only works on coro objects.
682
683 4.803 Mon Nov 3 17:16:12 CET 2008
684 - (libcoro) use a global asm statement to become independent of gcc
685 otpimisations for CORO_ASM (thanks to pippijn for the idea).
686 - try to workaround yet another broken bsd, this time dragonfly.
687
688 4.802 Thu Oct 30 10:56:12 CET 2008
689 - support -fno-omit-frame-pointer on x86 with the assembly method.
690 - tune 01_unblock.t tests a bit.
691
692 4.801 Wed Oct 22 18:33:37 CEST 2008
693 - improve readline speed for very long "lines".
694 - backport to 5.8.8.
695
696 4.8 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
697 - new function Coro::AIO::aio_wait.
698 - Coro.:AIO and Coro::BDB now "use Coro::AnyEvent".
699 - greatly speed up and reduce memory usage of Coro::AIO requests.
700 - implement some other µ-optimisations.
701
702 4.749 Mon Sep 29 14:40:12 CEST 2008
703 - port to slow and broken pseudo-threaded perls. (courtesy pippijn).
704
705 4.748 Sat Sep 27 14:03:19 CEST 2008
706 - implement, but do not document, PerlIO::cede(granularity).
707 - Coro::Storable forgot to wrap Storable::pstore.
708 - work around the multitude of leaks and memory corruption
709 bugs in PerlIO::via by using our own C-level perliol. As a side
710 effect, Coro::Storable is now much, much, much faster.
711
712 4.747 Tue Sep 23 01:59:41 CEST 2008
713 - fix a per-cv memleak (one empty array was leaked per
714 code reference).
715 - avoid a crash in coro->call|rss when the coroutine was already
716 destroyed (most noticably when using Coro::Debug::ps :)
717 - also protect *Storable::FILE.
718 - push up default storable granularity to 20ms.
719
720 4.746 Sun Sep 21 03:22:20 CEST 2008
721 - be more insistent on locking Storable against reentrancy
722 in Coro::Storable.
723 - move swap_def?v and throw to Coro::State, as documented.
724
725 4.745 Thu Jul 24 00:14:38 CEST 2008
726 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to
727 make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves
728 outdated software). Reported by John S.
729
730 4.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008
731 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented.
732 - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current
733 implementations inside perl work fine for us.
734
735 4.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008
736 - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could
737 result in busy-waiting for events, this has been fixed.
738 - reduce codesize and improve performance by using EV_DEFAULT_UC.
739
740 4.742 Sat May 31 14:10:21 CEST 2008
741 - implement a workaround for (some) perl <5.8.8 versions.
742 - require EV 3.3+.
743
744 4.741 Fri May 30 23:33:09 CEST 2008
745 - tell netbsd how utterly broken their imitation of an OS is
746 and refuse to build by default if pthreads are in use.
747 - switch to "s" method on all bsd's by default, as their ucontext
748 stuff seems just too broken.
749 - fix a bug in Coro::Select.
750
751 4.74 Thu May 29 20:05:31 CEST 2008
752 - do not test Coro::LWP for lack of dependencies.
753 - do not test Coro::Select for lack of working perls.
754
755 4.73 Thu May 29 2008
756 - fix a bug in Coro::EV which would cause it to block despite
757 there being runnable coroutines.
758 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress
759 warnings for some other modules.
760 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
761
762 4.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008
763 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way
764 to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :(
765 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to
766 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...).
767 - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented
768 error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage
769 of AnyEvent's workaround for that problem.
770 - use AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking in Coro::Handle to work around
771 a common perl implementation bug on windows.
772 - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around
773 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by
774 tcp sockets on windows. ugh.)
775
776 4.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008
777 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()").
778 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util.
779 - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP.
780 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother
781 scheduling.
782
783 4.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
784 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
785 - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
786 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
787 - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
788 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
789 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
790 use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
791
792 4.6 Sat Apr 26 10:05:14 CEST 2008
793 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported
794 by the Coro module. It was a mistake to have it in the first place.
795 - (experimental) support for activestate perl 5.10 (method "w").
796 - (experimental) support for strawberry perl (method "a").
797 - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to,
798 actual impact unknown.
799
800 4.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008
801 - make it compile again on 5.8.
802
803 4.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008
804 - I did it twice! (see 4.49).
805
806 4.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008
807 - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they
808 were compiled on 5.8 only.
809
810 4.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
811 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
812 the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
813 (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
814 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
815
816 4.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
817 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
818 and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
819 leading to crashes and worse.
820 - document force_cctx.
821
822 4.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
823 - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
824 to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
825
826 4.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
827 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
828 downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
829 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
830 (also add testcase).
831 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
832 apparently having loads of fun with that).
833 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
834
835 4.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
836 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
837 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
838 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
839 - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
840 Andreas König.
841
842 4.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
843 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
844 "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
845
846 4.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
847 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
848 trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
849
850 4.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
851 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
852 from longmess and also skips the innermost
853 stackframes, giving more useufl output.
854 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
855 at a <1% speed hit.
856 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
857 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
858
859 4.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
860 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
861
862 4.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
863 - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
864
865 4.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
866 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
867 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
868 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
869
870 4.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
871 - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
872
873 4.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
874 - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
875 when the stack changed.
876 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
877 (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
878 if available.
879 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
880 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
881 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
882
883 4.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
884 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
885 and Coro::Handle.
886
887 4.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
888 - fix a spurious memory read.
889 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
890
891 4.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
892 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
893 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
894 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
895 - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
896 does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
897 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
898 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
899 directly supported by Coro.
900 - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
901 stuff in Coro::Util.
902 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
903 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
904 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
905
906 4.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
907 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
908 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
909 $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
910 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
911 instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
912 This also catches recursive invocations.
913 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
914
915 4.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
916 - port to threaded perls.
917
918 4.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
919 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
920 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
921 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
922 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
923 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
924 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
925 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
926 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
927 speeds up context switching a bit.
928 - further tune default stack sizes.
929 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
930 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
931 resulting in races between coroutines.
932 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
933 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
934 an unrelated coroutine.
935 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
936 more detail in Coro::State.
937 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
938 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
939 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
940 invalidating pointers.
941
942 4.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
943 - added Coro::throw method.
944 - minor code cleanups.
945
946 4.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
947 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
948 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
949 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
950 or use tracing).
951 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
952 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
953 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
954
955 4.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
956 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
957 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
958
959 4.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
960 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
961 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
962 debugging, tracing and much more.
963 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
964 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
965 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
966 flags.
967 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
968 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
969 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
970 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
971 - added Coro::killall.
972 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
973 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
974 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
975 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
976 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
977 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
978 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
979 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
980 - many minor tweaks.
981
982 3.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
983 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
984
985 3.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
986 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
987 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
988
989 3.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
990 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
991 pst's sometimes.
992 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
993 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
994 be threadsafe...).
995 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
996 but stateful semantics.
997 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
998 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
999
1000 3.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
1001 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
1002 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
1003 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
1004 (EXPERIMENTAL).
1005 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
1006 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
1007 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
1008 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
1009
1010 3.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
1011 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
1012 it by default.
1013 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
1014 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
1015 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
1016 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
1017 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
1018 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
1019 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
1020 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
1021 performance.
1022
1023 3.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
1024 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
1025 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
1026
1027 3.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
1028 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
1029 them without asking.
1030
1031 3.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
1032 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
1033 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
1034 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
1035 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
1036 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
1037 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
1038
1039 3.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
1040 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
1041 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
1042 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
1043 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
1044 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
1045 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
1046 obsolete platforms.
1047
1048 3.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
1049 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
1050 but was rather flaky in practise.
1051 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
1052 it was reused.
1053 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
1054 in cede_notself.
1055
1056 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
1057 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
1058 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
1059 documented and - hopefully - improved.
1060 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
1061 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
1062 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
1063 that could errronously trigger.
1064 - fix various large and small memleaks.
1065 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
1066 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
1067 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
1068 - added Coro::guard function.
1069 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
1070 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
1071 and 128k coros with async_pool).
1072 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
1073
1074 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
1075 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
1076 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
1077 - simplify configuration for users.
1078 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
1079 their coro replacements.
1080
1081 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
1082 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
1083 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
1084 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
1085 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
1086 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
1087 - save/restore tainted status.
1088 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
1089
1090 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
1091 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
1092 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
1093 - give a better error message on deadlock.
1094 - document Coro::nready.
1095 - enhanced testsuite.
1096
1097 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
1098 - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
1099
1100 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
1101 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
1102 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
1103 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
1104 pool (size currently hardcoded).
1105 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
1106 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
1107 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
1108 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
1109 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
1110 check for changed watchers.
1111 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
1112 per event.
1113 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
1114 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
1115 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
1116 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
1117 some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
1118 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
1119 directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
1120 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
1121 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
1122 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
1123 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
1124 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
1125 - updated to newest libcoro.
1126 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
1127 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
1128 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
1129 and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
1130 if somebody asks for it :)
1131 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
1132 spuriously without the event having happened.
1133
1134 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
1135 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
1136 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
1137 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
1138 make LWP non-blocking.
1139 - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
1140 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
1141 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
1142 - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
1143 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
1144 - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
1145 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
1146 by LWP(!!).
1147 - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
1148 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
1149 kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
1150 did already.
1151
1152 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
1153 - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
1154 zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
1155 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
1156 (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
1157 - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
1158 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
1159 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
1160 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
1161
1162 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
1163 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
1164
1165 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
1166
1167 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
1168 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
1169 mark & sweep gc run.
1170 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
1171
1172 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
1173 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
1174 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
1175
1176 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
1177 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
1178 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
1179 wrong package.
1180 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
1181 perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
1182 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
1183 normally uses.
1184 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
1185
1186 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
1187 - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
1188
1189 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
1190 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
1191 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
1192 - strict'ify some modules.
1193 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
1194 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
1195 - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
1196
1197 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
1198 - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
1199 when 'l'inux method was used.
1200
1201 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
1202 - some portability fixes/workarounds.
1203
1204 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
1205 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
1206 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
1207 Coro::State::flush method.
1208 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
1209
1210 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
1211 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
1212 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
1213 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
1214 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
1215 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
1216
1217 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
1218 - change of contact address.
1219
1220 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
1221 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
1222 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
1223
1224 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
1225 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
1226 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
1227 padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
1228
1229 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
1230 - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
1231
1232 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
1233 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
1234 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
1235 as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
1236 Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
1237 between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
1238 fixable).
1239 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
1240
1241 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
1242 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
1243 faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
1244 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
1245 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
1246 observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
1247 of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
1248 pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
1249 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
1250 - fix for threaded perl.
1251
1252 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
1253 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
1254 memory leaks.
1255 - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
1256 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
1257 hopefully ignoring it "just works".
1258
1259 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
1260 - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
1261 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
1262
1263 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
1264 - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
1265 of new features.
1266 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
1267 Highly correct stuff, that is...
1268 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
1269 the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
1270
1271 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
1272 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
1273 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
1274 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
1275 so preselect it.
1276
1277 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
1278 - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
1279 on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
1280
1281 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
1282 - added a README.linux-glibc.
1283 - new module Coro::Select.
1284 - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
1285 (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
1286 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
1287
1288 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
1289 - made lazy context switching the default.
1290 - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
1291 was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
1292 - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
1293 - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
1294
1295 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
1296 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
1297 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
1298 - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
1299 ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
1300 - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
1301 of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
1302
1303 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
1304 - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
1305 - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
1306 could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
1307
1308 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
1309 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
1310 (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
1311 without Event, which freezes).
1312
1313 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
1314 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
1315
1316 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
1317 - some tests for Event.
1318 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
1319 and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
1320 new ones.
1321 - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
1322 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
1323
1324 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
1325 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
1326 patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
1327 - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
1328
1329 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
1330 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
1331 could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
1332 error.
1333 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
1334 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
1335 - implemented terminate with args + join.
1336
1337 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
1338 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
1339 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
1340 in various modules.
1341 - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
1342 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
1343
1344 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
1345 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
1346 inside Coro::Handle.
1347 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
1348 speed reasons.
1349 - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
1350 sjlj and ucontext should now work.
1351 - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
1352 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
1353 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
1354 - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
1355 under some circumstances.
1356 - other bugfixes.
1357
1358 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
1359 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
1360 - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
1361 - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
1362 - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
1363 - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
1364 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
1365 syntax.
1366 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
1367 - new simple priority system.
1368 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
1369 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
1370
1371 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
1372 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
1373 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
1374 (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
1375 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
1376 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
1377 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
1378 "Callback called exit" messages).
1379 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
1380 - much better Coro::Socket support.
1381
1382 0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
1383 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
1384 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
1385 should work well in practise ;)
1386 - added Coro::RWLock.
1387 - Coro::Specific now works.
1388
1389 0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
1390 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
1391 - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
1392 - new module Coro::Socket.
1393
1394 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
1395 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
1396 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
1397 for yield.
1398 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
1399 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
1400 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
1401 perl-5.6.
1402 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
1403 - the idle process is now overriden
1404 by default in Coro::Event.
1405 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
1406 - canceling events now works in all cases.
1407 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
1408 - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
1409 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
1410 non-blocking i/o.
1411 - performance tuning.
1412
1413 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
1414 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
1415 - add Coro::State::flush function.
1416 - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
1417 - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
1418 - continuations have a saner syntax.
1419 - no more memleaks.
1420
1421 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
1422 - release candidate 1 ;)
1423 - slightly nicer code.
1424 - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
1425
1426 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
1427 - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
1428 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
1429 see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
1430 chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
1431 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
1432 - Coro::Event now works (haha).
1433
1434 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
1435 - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
1436 - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
1437
1438 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
1439 - @_ is now properly localized.
1440 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
1441 - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
1442 - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
1443 coroutine-specific vars.
1444 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
1445
1446 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
1447 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
1448 - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
1449 - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
1450 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
1451 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
1452 model. Still crude and subject to change.
1453 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
1454
1455 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
1456 - implemented "async" attribute.
1457 - $_ and $@ are now localized.
1458 - added Coro::Channel.
1459 - more testcases, still no docs.
1460
1461 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
1462 - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
1463