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AnyEvent-3.3
River stage three • 409 direct dependents • 668 total dependents
163 ++

Changes for version 3.3 - 2008-04-28

  • added AnyEvent::Handle, AnyEvent::Socket and AnyEvent::Util modules.
  • fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo.
  • add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing the different event loops with each other.
  • prefer pure perl over tk when autoprobing, as it's about as fast, but doesn't crash with many watchers.
  • declare Qt support non-experimental.
  • clarify the confusing section about the file descriptor being kept alive.
  • document the race between loading of an event module and child processes exiting.
  • support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic enough, and darn slow).
  • support Wx and Prima through POE.
  • optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually faster than Event and Glib :).
  • roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%, by removing undocumented functionality. Did something similar to other event loops where possible.

Modules

AnyEvent
provide framework for multiple event loops
AnyEvent::Handle
non-blocking I/O on filehandles via AnyEvent
AnyEvent::Impl::Coro
Base class for Coro::EV and Coro::Event
AnyEvent::Impl::CoroEV
AnyEvent adaptor for Coro::EV, EV
AnyEvent::Impl::CoroEvent
AnyEvent adaptor for Coro::Event, Event
AnyEvent::Impl::EV
AnyEvent adaptor for EV
AnyEvent::Impl::Event
AnyEvent adaptor for Event
AnyEvent::Impl::EventLib
AnyEvent adaptor for Event::Lib
AnyEvent::Impl::Glib
AnyEvent adaptor for Glib
AnyEvent::Impl::POE
AnyEvent adaptor for POE
AnyEvent::Impl::Perl
Pure-Perl event loop and AnyEvent adaptor for itself
AnyEvent::Impl::Qt
AnyEvent adaptor for Qt
AnyEvent::Impl::Tk
AnyEvent adaptor for Tk
AnyEvent::Socket
Connecting sockets for non-blocking I/O
AnyEvent::Util
various utility functions.

Provides

AnyEvent::Base
in lib/AnyEvent.pm
AnyEvent::Impl::Qt::Io
in lib/AnyEvent/Impl/Qt.pm
AnyEvent::Impl::Qt::Timer
in lib/AnyEvent/Impl/Qt.pm

Examples

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