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Changes for version 2.21 - 2013-09-12

  • Many more improvements from Niels Thykier, great hero of the free people. Plus a compatibility patch from Zefram, keeper of Carp.
  • SPEED / INTERNAL : Through the magic of globally reuseable core leak trampolines, autodie is even faster when used across multiple pacakages.
  • SPEED / INTERNAL : Caches used for keeping track of fatalised subroutines are faster and leaner.
  • SPEED / INTERNAL : Core subroutine wrappers are now lazily compiled.
  • SPEED / INTERNAL : Using autodie while autodie is already in effect is now faster and more efficient.
  • INTERNAL : $" and $! are no longer arbitrarily messed with for no reason via autodie. (They're still messed with when using Fatal.)
  • SPEED / INTERNAL : The ':all' tag hierachy is expanded immediately, in an efficient fashion.
  • INTERNAL : Numerous minor clean-ups. Dead variables removed. Typos fixed.
  • SPEED / INTERNAL : import() and _make_fatal() cache more aggressively, reducing CPU overhead.
  • TEST: Compatibility with Carp 1.32 (thanks to Zefram). RT #88076.

Modules

Replace functions with equivalents which succeed or die
Replace functions with ones that succeed or die with lexical scope
Exceptions from autodying functions.
Exceptions from autodying system().
Provide hints about user subroutines to autodie
Skip a package when throwing autodie exceptions

Provides

in lib/Fatal.pm