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Coro-4.9
River stage two • 53 direct dependents • 69 total dependents
79 ++

Changes for version 4.9 - 2008-11-08

  • (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
  • (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend, also speed it up considerably.
  • (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
  • fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
  • cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
  • Coro::State::cctx_stacksize wasn't applied correctly.
  • new function Coro::State::cctx_max_idle.
  • the default max number of idle C contexts is now 4.
  • (libcoro) try harder to get _setjmp/_longjmp.
  • (libcoro) cleanup and extend the libcoro API to officially allow the creation of empty source contexts.
  • very experimental workaround for the totally broken netbsd platform.
  • tried to hack around openbsd bugs.

Modules

Coro
coroutine process abstraction
Coro::AIO
truly asynchronous file and directory I/O
Coro::AnyEvent
integrate coroutines into AnyEvent
Coro::BDB
truly asynchronous bdb access
Coro::Channel
message queues
Coro::Debug
various functions that help debugging Coro programs
Coro::Handle
non-blocking io with a blocking interface.
Coro::LWP
make LWP non-blocking - as much as possible
Coro::MakeMaker
MakeMaker glue for the C-level Coro API
Coro::RWLock
reader/write locks
Coro::Select
a (slow but coro-aware) replacement for CORE::select
Coro::Semaphore
non-binary semaphores
Coro::SemaphoreSet
hash of semaphores.
Coro::Signal
coroutine signals (binary semaphores)
Coro::Socket
non-blocking socket-io
Coro::Specific
manage coroutine-specific variables.
Coro::State
create and manage simple coroutines
Coro::Storable
offer a more fine-grained Storable interface
Coro::Timer
simple timer package, independent of used event loops
Coro::Util
various utility functions.
Coro::EV
do events the coro-way
Coro::Event
do events the coro-way

Provides

Coro::AnyEvent::CondVar
in Coro/AnyEvent.pm
Coro::Handle::FH
in Coro/Handle.pm
Coro::LWP::Socket
in Coro/LWP.pm
Coro::Timer::Timeout
in Coro/Timer.pm

Examples

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