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Coro-4.1
River stage two • 53 direct dependents • 69 total dependents
79 ++

Changes for version 4.1 - 2007-10-11

  • incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
  • incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
  • possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
  • work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
  • overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also speeds up context switching a bit.
  • further tune default stack sizes.
  • (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
  • Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock resulting in races between coroutines.
  • added Coro::Storable::guard.
  • stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of an unrelated coroutine.
  • explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in more detail in Coro::State.
  • Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms, causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
  • switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid invalidating pointers.

Modules

Coro
coroutine process abstraction
Coro::AIO
truly asynchronous file and directrory I/O
Coro::Channel
message queues
Coro::Debug
various functions that help debugging Coro programs
Coro::Handle
non-blocking io with a blocking interface.
Coro::LWP
make LWP non-blocking - as much as possible
Coro::MakeMaker
MakeMaker glue for the C-level Coro API
Coro::RWLock
reader/write locks
Coro::Select
a (slow but coro-aware) replacement for CORE::select
Coro::Semaphore
non-binary semaphores
Coro::SemaphoreSet
hash of semaphores.
Coro::Signal
coroutine signals (binary semaphores)
Coro::Socket
non-blocking socket-io
Coro::Specific
manage coroutine-specific variables.
Coro::State
create and manage simple coroutines
Coro::Storable
offer a more fine-grained Storable interface
Coro::Timer
simple timer package, independent of used event loops
Coro::Util
various utility functions.
Coro::Event
do events the coro-way

Provides

Coro::Handle::FH
in Coro/Handle.pm
Coro::LWP::Socket
in Coro/LWP.pm
Coro::Timer::Timeout
in Coro/Timer.pm
PerlIO::via::CoroCede
in Coro/Storable.pm

Examples

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