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Changes for version 0.53 - 2001-11-27

  • some tests for Event.
  • slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce new ones.
  • Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
  • new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.

Modules

coroutine process abstraction
message queues
schmorp's faked continuations
MakeMaker glue for the C-level Coro API
reader/write locks
non-binary semaphores
hash of semaphores.
coroutine signals (binary semaphores)
manage coroutone-specific variables.
create and manage simple coroutines
simple timer package, independent of used event loops
do events the coro-way
non-blocking io with a blocking interface.
non-blocking socket-io
various utility functions.

Provides

in Event/Handle.pm
in Event/Event.pm
in Coro/Timer.pm