MCE-1.499_005 - Many-core Engine for Perl. Provides parallel processing capabilities.

Changes for version 1.499_005 - 2013-10-03

Added missing package modules under provides.
Completed documentation for MCE::Loop.
Two items remain before releasing the final MCE 1.5.
- 1. Document MCE::Stream 2. Redo documentation for MCE::Flow
- ;) mario

Changes for version 1.499_004 - 2013-10-03

Re-added provides section inside Makefile.PL and META.yml.

Changes for version 1.499_003 - 2013-10-03

MCE 1.5 is backwards compatible with 1.4 and below.
The documentation, previously MCE.pod, moved to MCE::Core.pod with the examples section placed in MCE::Examples.pod. The MCE.pod file serves as an index page for the various documentation.
IPC has been enhanced with 8 data channels. Many operations run 3x when compared with MCE 1.4.
Five models: MCE::Flow, MCE::Grep, MCE::Loop, MCE::Map, and MCE::Stream.
Hybrid queues via MCE::Queue allowing for normal and priority queues.
MCE::Subs for exporting functions prefixed with mce_; e.g. mce_wid.
All public methods can be called directly using the package name and method e.g. MCE->wid, MCE->run.
- MCE->new( max_workers => 'auto', user_func => sub { my $wid = MCE->wid; MCE->sendto("STDOUT", "Hello from $wid\n"); } );
- MCE->run;
New options (gather, interval, task_name).
- The task_end option can now be specified at the top level. See docs for use case.
- Input_data can be specified inside the first task instead of having to specify this at the top level. Input_data is ignored when specified for tasks other than the first task.
  - user_tasks => [{ input_data => \@list, ... },{ ... }
New public methods chunk_id, gather, freeze, thaw, yield, task_name, print, printf, say
New example (interval.pl).
Optimized the egrep.pl and wc.pl examples. These run much faster. Try these out against large log files. Both examples fly.
Barrier synchronization update. Two sockets are utilized instead of 2 lock files. This, now works wonderfully under the Cygwin environment. For threading, the removal of 2 lock files increases the number of threads allowed from about 1/3rd previously to under 1/2 of ulimit, e.g. int(ulimit -n / 2 - 20).
Removed the logic for determining MAX_OPEN_FILES and MAX_USER_PROCS. MCE no longer has a constraint on max_workers allowed.
Code re-factor work. Added a private method _validate_runstate called by various methods. Organized the code slightly such as placement of methods.
Localize the input scalar $_ prior to calling user_func. Folks can use $_ for input_data and sequence of numbers. Added section to docs explaining DEFAULT INPUT SCALAR.