MCE 1.415

on Perl CPAN

• Code-refactor in preparation for the upcoming 1.5 release.
  This completes the 1.4x branch for a very solid and stable release.

• IPC optimization. Localize $\ and $/ only as needed. Small tweak to
  logic when specifying RS (record separator) for input data.

Foreach is very communication intensive. Forseq is less so. Chunking
was made faster by increasing chunk size from 500 to 2500. I've reached
my goal for forseq by reaching 60,000+. A while back, foreach could
barely reach 18,000.

 Before and after results with IPC optimization.

                       (Before)      (After)
 Parallel::Loops          600          600
 $mce->foreach         20,000       21,500  (+  1,500)
 $mce->forseq          55,000       64,000  (+  9,000)
 $mce->forchunk       395,000      450,000  (+ 55,000)

• Updated the process method. Allows sequence to be specified as an
  option. Also allow the hash to be specified as the 1st or 2nd
  argument.

  $mce->process( \@input_array, { options } );
  $mce->process( { options }, [ 1..1000 ] );
  $mce->process( { sequence => [ 20, 40, 2 ] } );

• The forseq method will now honor chunk_size greater than 1. Updated
  docs with use case.

• Added CONST short for EXPORT_CONST, e.g. use MCE CONST => 1;