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Changes for version 6.512 - 2017-07-14

  • seems to pass test suite down till 5.8.9, so make this the minimum requirement in Makefile.PL.
  • experimental 5.24 compatibility changes (SUB_ARGARRAY).
  • experimental 5.26 compatibility changes (PL_comppad -> PADOFFSET).
  • disable FORTIFY_SOURCE to avoid broken (but well-intentioned) fortified longjmp variants in some libcs.
  • re-try JIT allocation without PROT_EXEC, to hopefully improve portability (still doesn't seem to work around broken selinux mmap everywhere).
  • speling fixes (Xavier Guimard).

Documentation

Modules

the only real threads in perl
truly asynchronous file and directory I/O
integrate threads into AnyEvent
truly asynchronous bdb access
message queues
various functions that help debugging Coro programs
non-blocking I/O with a blocking interface.
make LWP non-blocking - as much as possible
MakeMaker glue for the XS-level Coro API
reader/write locks
a (slow but coro-aware) replacement for CORE::select
counting semaphores
efficient set of counting semaphores
thread signals (binary semaphores)
non-blocking socket-I/O
manage coroutine-specific variables.
first class continuations
offer a more fine-grained Storable interface
timers and timeouts, independent of any event loop
various utility functions.
do events the coro-way, with EV
do events the coro-way, with Event

Provides

in Coro/State.pm
in Coro/Handle.pm
in Coro/LWP.pm
in Coro/Timer.pm