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Changes for version 0.05 - 2005-05-01

  • Added standby jobs.
  • Fixed wait_job_to_start() lock.
  • Fixed is_running_any_job() deadlock.
  • Added pack_call() and pack_eval().
  • Added detach() method to job.
  • Added time() attribute to job.
  • Changed required Perl version to 5.8.6 (was 5.8.3). Less memory leak at 5.8.6.
  • Added get/set_attr() and get/set_global() to share data between 2 running threads, or to spy the internal status of a thread.
  • POD improvements.
  • Added improvements to the process to past data/objects from one thread to another, where now is possible to paste IO/GLOB and objects with CODE references inside.

Modules

Create Threads that can be called externally and use them to isolate modules from the main thread.
Map/link packages of one thread to many other threads.
A pool of threads to execute multiple tasks.

Provides

in lib/Thread/Isolate/Job.pm
in lib/Thread/Isolate/Map/Array.pm
in lib/Thread/Isolate/Map/Handle.pm
in lib/Thread/Isolate/Map/Hash.pm
in lib/Thread/Isolate/Map/Scalar.pm
in lib/Thread/Isolate/Thread.pm
in lib/Thread/Isolate/Thread.pm