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Changes for version 1.6 - 2005-12-12

  • additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet unseen problems with regex matches being attributes to the wrong package.
  • add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get invocation (debian) as opposed ot the 0.0002MB normal perls use.
  • make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.

Modules

coroutine process abstraction
message queues
continuations in perl
MakeMaker glue for the C-level Coro API
reader/write locks
non-binary semaphores
hash of semaphores.
coroutine signals (binary semaphores)
manage coroutine-specific variables.
create and manage simple coroutines
simple timer package, independent of used event loops
do events the coro-way
non-blocking io with a blocking interface.
a (slow but event-aware) replacement for CORE::select
non-blocking socket-io
various utility functions.

Provides

in Event/Handle.pm
in Event/Event.pm
in Coro/Timer.pm