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Changes for version 3.4 - 2007-01-19

  • remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much but was rather flaky in practise.
  • async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until it was reused.
  • cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls in cede_notself.

Modules

coroutine process abstraction
truly asynchronous file and directrory I/O
message queues
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
simple timer package, independent of used event loops
various utility functions.
do events the coro-way

Provides

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