--- EV/Changes 2007/11/24 16:57:29 1.62 +++ EV/Changes 2007/12/21 09:43:57 1.103 @@ -1,6 +1,84 @@ Revision history for Perl extension EV -1.3 +TODO: document embed watchers + + - no longer force kqueue when enabled, enable it + on more systems (as its now by default not used on most). + - expose fork watchers. + - switch to libev's MULTIPLICITY API. + - use a slightly different include file name strategy. + - get rid of (unused) libevent emulation. + - 5% watcher management speedup due to callback optimisation + when inline closures are used, 5% slowdown due to multiplicity. + - very minimal support for dynamic event loops and embed watchers. + - fix name of prepare start/stop methods. + - (libev) removed epoll from embeddable fd set. + - (libev) fix embed watchers. + - (libev) renamed ev_embed.loop to other. + - (libev) added exported Symbol tables. + - (libev) undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c. + - (libev) respect EV_H in ev++.h. + +1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007 + - (libev) fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl). + - add periodic->at methods. + +1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007 + - further optimise epoll backend by adding a heuristic that + avoids EPOLL_CTL_DEL calls if possible. + - EV::signal->start was not async-signal safe. + - (libev) fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics + (not relevant for perl). + - optimise start/stop when the fd hasn't changed. + +1.8 Tue Dec 11 22:17:46 CET 2007 + - API version 3:0. + - reduced fudge factor to zero for select, poll, epoll + and kqueue: your system better be posix-compliant + even in its extensions :-> + - improve long-term numerical stability in periodic watchers + by introducing a separate offset value instead of reusing at. + - recalculate real/monotonic clocks before blocking fully + to avoid blocking for longer than necessary. + - fix bugs in the heap functions. this rarely lead to illegal + heap orderings. + +1.72 Sat Dec 8 15:31:26 CET 2007 + - add dummy loop arguments to some EVAPI functions + so that clients can use EV_A and EV_DEFAULT. + - expose ev_clear_pending. + - renamed trigger to invoke. + +1.71 Fri Dec 7 19:10:24 CET 2007 + - changed/implemented idle watcher priority. + - allow out-of-range priorities to be set. + - fix ->priority to actually work on started watchers. + - improved testsuite. + +1.6 Wed Dec 5 15:06:20 CET 2007 + - add a missing SPAGAIN. + - ripped out EV::DNS, use EV::ADNS for a better backend. + - make ev_time callable from EVAPI.h. + - add EV::loop_count. + - some space optimisations. + +1.5 Wed Nov 28 20:19:09 CET 2007 + - add inotify backend. + - make testsuite even less sensible to timing issues, + add more stat tests. + - add ->attr, ->prev, ->stat calls to stat watcher. + +1.4 Tue Nov 27 17:35:27 CET 2007 + - work around a linux 2.4 kernel bug in child handlers. + - implement stat watcher interface. + - implement fork watcher interface. + - io->set did not keep the fh alive. + - actively check signal numbers/names to be valid. + - cleanups, minor fixes, new bugs. + - work around windows bugs in the testsuite. + +1.3 Sun Nov 25 10:46:57 CET 2007 + - stopping idle/check/prepare watchers could cause data corruption. - implement and document EV::once. - improved documentation, verify that netbsd indeed has the only working kqueue implementation (out of darwin, freebsd, netbsd and @@ -52,7 +130,7 @@ - many minor fixes. 0.6 Thu Nov 8 18:23:43 CET 2007 - - better native win32 support (not relevant for perl usually). + - (libev) better native win32 support. - fix idle watchers. - implement and document periodic reschedule callbacks. - do not run dns test on !linux platforms (actually to exclude win32).