0.08 20 August 2002 Dave Mitchell showed me the error of my ways with regards to client server thread programming. Fixed the handler optimized for memory so that no yield()s are necessary anymore. The whole thing now gets through the test suite more than 25% faster for that part. Scalability to many more threads should now be a lot better too. 0.07 14 August 2002 Removed (possibly premature) optimization from T::C::Thread _handler: it now doesn't zap the local threadspace anymore. 0.06 13 August 2002 Handed over freezing and thawing operations to Thread::Serialize. Added dependency to Thread::Serialize in Makefile.PL. 0.05 6 August 2002 Fixed "onbelt" in T::C::Thread so that it won't hang if the belt is shut down. Needed for Thread::Pool and in general useful. 5 August 2002 Added index functionality to "peek" and "peek_dontwait" to all sub-classes and added documentation for it. Needed for Thread::Pool. Finally got the T::C::Thread implementation getting through the test-suite reliably. Problem was caused by my misconception that cond_wait would always regain the lock() after being signalled. It does not. This should have been in big red letters in the threads::shared pod. Added methods "shutdown", "thread" and "tid" plus documentation. 3 August 2002 Adapted test-suite to use many more combinations of possible settings. 2 August 2002 Added new "optimize" field parameter to allow you to select an implementation optimized for speed (T::C::Array and T::C::Throttled) or for memory (T::C::Thread). Added new implementation of Thread::Conveyor based on using a seperate thread for keeping the belt: Thread::Conveyor::Thread. Move basic parts of Thread::Conveyor to Thread::Conveyor::Array. Which should allow for other implementations of the conveyor metaphor. 0.04 1 August 2002 Added internal method "_belt" to get at the actual belt, for both the normal and the throttled belt. 0.03 31 July 2002 Added internal methods "_freeze" and "_thaw" so that we can move to a different serialization scheme or other optimizations without having to change all the sub-classes as well. First user is Thread::Conveyor::Monitored. Added "maxjobs" and "minjobs" method in Thread::Conveyor that will die when they're called (throttling only takes place in Thread::Conveyor::Throttled). Fixed problem that would cause throttling to not be switched off when the "maxjobs" method was specified with an undef value. Added methods "clean" and "clean_dontwait" for cleaning the belt to both Thread::Conveyor and Thread::Conveyor::Throttled. Also added documentation for it. Added internal method "_clean" for obtaining frozen contents of the belt to both Thread::Conveyor and Thread::Conveyor::Throttled. This was needed for Thread::Conveyor::Monitored. 0.02 30 July 2002 Adapted Thread::Conveyor to default to a throttled conveyor belt automatically if no specific parameters specified. Now allows for specification of throttling settings in a parameter hash reference. If unthrottling is specifically specified, returns to the old unthrottled behaviour (where the object is just an array reference), thus keeping the old execution speed. Added helper class Thread::Conveyor::Throttled to allow for throttled conveyor belts that block if there are too many boxes on the belt. Fixed some documentation nits. 0.01 25 July 2002 First version of Thread::Conveyor, which started life as Thread::Queue::Any.