threads Changes

[Nicholas Clark]

So, yes, officially I'm now completing perl589delta, with big thanks to all
the volunteers who made this job way way way easier.

Now, you all thought it was over, but I can see a task that can be done
independently of me, and would help a lot. Specifically, 5.8.8 shipped
with threads 1.07. 5.8.9 will ship with threads 1.71. A lot happened -
Jerry (and contributors) were very busy:

http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/htdocs/threads/Changes.html

But I have no good idea whether it's even possible to pick 4 or so key things
that have improved. Else perl589delta.pod is simply going to be something
like:

=item *

C<threads> upgraded to 1.61

Too many changes to meaningfully précis. See its Changes file.

=cut

So is anyone able to donate some time to working out what the most important
threads changes are. Or if it's a lost cause.

Nicholas Clark

[Nicholas Clark]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 03:47:02PM -0500, Jerry D. Hedden wrote:
> Nicholas Clark wrote:
> > Now, you all thought it was over, but I can see a task that can be done
> > independently of me, and would help a lot. Specifically, 5.8.8 shipped
> > with threads 1.07. 5.8.9 will ship with threads 1.71. A lot happened -
> > Jerry (and contributors) were very busy:
>

> Will something like this do:
>
> =item *
>
> C<threads> upgraded to 1.71
>
> =over
>
> =item *
>
> New thread state information methods: C<is_running>, C<is_detached>
> and C<is_joinable>. C<list> method enhanced to return running or joinable
> threads.
>
> =item *
>
> New thread signal method: C<kill>
>
> =item *
>
> Added capability to specify thread stack size
>
> =item *
>
> Added capability to control thread exiting behavior. Added a new C<exit>
> method.
>
> =back

Yes, that's beautiful, if you think that's a fair summary of the most
important changes between 1.07 and 1.71

Nicholas Clark

[Nicholas Clark]

Thanks applied, as change 34727

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 04:06:42PM -0500, Jerry D. Hedden wrote:

Except that I assumed that you meant =over here, not =back

> +=back
> +
> +=item *
> +
> +Added capability to add complex structures (e.g., hash of hashes) to queues.
> +
> +=item *
> +
> +Added capability to dequeue multiple items at once
> +
> +=item *
> +
> +Added new methods to inspect and manipulate queues: C<peek>, C<insert> and
> +C<extract>
> +
> +=back
> +
> =item *
>
> C<Tie::Memoize> upgraded to version 1.1

(podchecker is about the only sanity test that perl589delta.pod is getting,
currently)

Nicholas Clark