MCE 1.839

on Perl CPAN

[NEW FEATURES]

• Added MCE::Mutex::Channel2 providing two locks using a single channel.
  The secondary lock is accessible by calling methods with the '2' suffix.
  E.g. primary mutex ->lock, ->unlock; secondary mutex ->lock2, ->unlock2

• Added MCE::Channel providing queue-like and two-way communication
  supporting threads and processes.

• Added MCE::Child and compatibility with Perl 5.8. MCE::Child is based on
  MCE::Hobo, but using MCE::Channel for data retrieval without involving
  a shared-manager process.

• Added MCE::Channel examples { channel1.pl and channel2.pl } using
  threads and MCE::Child respectively.
  https://github.com/marioroy/mce-examples/tree/master/chameneos

[ENHANCEMENTS]

• IPC update; removed unnecessary overhead including private methods
  _sysseek and _syswrite from MCE::Util (no longer needed).

• Improved MCE->do, now callable by workers and the manager process.

• Updated MCE::{ Flow, Grep, Loop, Map, Step, and Stream } documentation
  on passing an array reference versus a list for deeply input data.

• Updated and re-organized the top-level MCE documentation, particularly
  improved clarity for the 'MCE Models' section.

• Removed MANIFEST.SKIP.