Changes for version 4.46 - 2008-04-04

  • upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).

Modules

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

Provides

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