Changes for version 6.41 - 2014-09-06

  • restore portability to perl 5.8.x.
  • give new Coro's a valid GvHV(PL_hintgv) - this is slow and takes up some memory, but fixes "use feature" and similar modules when used inside a Coro.
  • allow zero as argument to Coro::Channel to mean the same thing as no argument. this works with older versions as well, but wasn't legal until now.
  • slightly better c header file detection.

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