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Changes for version 5.11

  • DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(

Documentation

Modules

the only real threads in perl
truly asynchronous file and directory I/O
integrate coroutines into AnyEvent
truly asynchronous bdb access
message queues
various functions that help debugging Coro programs
non-blocking I/O with a blocking interface.
make LWP non-blocking - as much as possible
MakeMaker glue for the XS-level Coro API
reader/write locks
a (slow but coro-aware) replacement for CORE::select
counting semaphores
efficient set of counting semaphores
coroutine signals (binary semaphores)
non-blocking socket-I/O
manage coroutine-specific variables.
first class continuations
offer a more fine-grained Storable interface
timers and timeouts, independent of any event loop
various utility functions.
do events the coro-way, with EV
do events the coro-way, with Event

Provides

in Coro/State.pm
in Coro/AnyEvent.pm
in Coro/Handle.pm
in Coro/LWP.pm
in Coro/SemaphoreSet.pm
in Coro/Timer.pm