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Revision 1.218 by root, Wed Jun 24 10:03:42 2009 UTC vs.
Revision 1.224 by root, Fri Jul 3 21:44:14 2009 UTC

 There is a slight catch to child watchers, however: you usually start them
 I<after> the child process was created, and this means the process could
 have exited already (and no SIGCHLD will be sent anymore).
-Not all event models handle this correctly (POE doesn't), but even for
+Not all event models handle this correctly (neither POE nor IO::Async do,
+see their AnyEvent::Impl manpages for details), but even for event models
-event models that I<do> handle this correctly, they usually need to be
+that I<do> handle this correctly, they usually need to be loaded before
-loaded before the process exits (i.e. before you fork in the first place).
+the process exits (i.e. before you fork in the first place). AnyEvent's
+pure perl event loop handles all cases correctly regardless of when you
+start the watcher.
-This means you cannot create a child watcher as the very first thing in an
+This means you cannot create a child watcher as the very first
-AnyEvent program, you I<have> to create at least one watcher before you
+thing in an AnyEvent program, you I<have> to create at least one
-C<fork> the child (alternatively, you can call C<AnyEvent::detect>).
+watcher before you C<fork> the child (alternatively, you can call
+C<AnyEvent::detect>).
 Example: fork a process and wait for it
    my $done = AnyEvent->condvar;
 =item $cv->begin ([group callback])
 =item $cv->end
-These two methods are EXPERIMENTAL and MIGHT CHANGE.
 These two methods can be used to combine many transactions/events into
 one. For example, a function that pings many hosts in parallel might want
 to use a condition variable for the whole process.
 Every call to C<< ->begin >> will increment a counter, and every call to
 C<< ->end >> will decrement it.  If the counter reaches C<0> in C<< ->end
 >>, the (last) callback passed to C<begin> will be executed. That callback
 is I<supposed> to call C<< ->send >>, but that is not required. If no
 callback was set, C<send> will be called without any arguments.
-Let's clarify this with the ping example:
+You can think of C<< $cv->send >> giving you an OR condition (one call
+sends), while C<< $cv->begin >> and C<< $cv->end >> giving you an AND
+condition (all C<begin> calls must be C<end>'ed before the condvar sends).
+Let's start with a simple example: you have two I/O watchers (for example,
+STDOUT and STDERR for a program), and you want to wait for both streams to
+close before activating a condvar:
+   my $cv = AnyEvent->condvar;
+   $cv->begin; # first watcher
+   my $w1 = AnyEvent->io (fh => $fh1, cb => sub {
+      defined sysread $fh1, my $buf, 4096
+         or $cv->end;
+   });
+   $cv->begin; # second watcher
+   my $w2 = AnyEvent->io (fh => $fh2, cb => sub {
+      defined sysread $fh2, my $buf, 4096
+         or $cv->end;
+   });
+   $cv->recv;
+This works because for every event source (EOF on file handle), there is
+one call to C<begin>, so the condvar waits for all calls to C<end> before
+sending.
+The ping example mentioned above is slightly more complicated, as the
+there are results to be passwd back, and the number of tasks that are
+begung can potentially be zero:
    my $cv = AnyEvent->condvar;
    my %result;
    $cv->begin (sub { $cv->send (\%result) });
 loop, which serves two important purposes: first, it sets the callback
 to be called once the counter reaches C<0>, and second, it ensures that
 C<send> is called even when C<no> hosts are being pinged (the loop
 doesn't execute once).
-This is the general pattern when you "fan out" into multiple subrequests:
+This is the general pattern when you "fan out" into multiple (but
-use an outer C<begin>/C<end> pair to set the callback and ensure C<end>
+potentially none) subrequests: use an outer C<begin>/C<end> pair to set
-is called at least once, and then, for each subrequest you start, call
+the callback and ensure C<end> is called at least once, and then, for each
-C<begin> and for each subrequest you finish, call C<end>.
+subrequest you start, call C<begin> and for each subrequest you finish,
+call C<end>.
 =back
 =head3 METHODS FOR CONSUMERS
    AnyEvent::Impl::Tk        based on Tk, very bad choice.
    AnyEvent::Impl::Qt        based on Qt, cannot be autoprobed (see its docs).
    AnyEvent::Impl::EventLib  based on Event::Lib, leaks memory and worse.
    AnyEvent::Impl::POE       based on POE, not generic enough for full support.
+   # warning, support for IO::Async is only partial, as it is too broken
+   # and limited toe ven support the AnyEvent API. See AnyEvent::Impl::Async.
+   AnyEvent::Impl::IOAsync   based on IO::Async, cannot be autoprobed (see its docs).
 There is no support for WxWidgets, as WxWidgets has no support for
 watching file handles. However, you can use WxWidgets through the
 POE Adaptor, as POE has a Wx backend that simply polls 20 times per
 second, which was considered to be too horrible to even consider for
 AnyEvent. Likewise, other POE backends can be used by AnyEvent by using
 no warnings;
 use strict qw(vars subs);
 use Carp;
-our $VERSION = 4.412;
+our $VERSION = 4.452;
 our $MODEL;
 our $AUTOLOAD;
 our @ISA;
    [Event::Lib::           => AnyEvent::Impl::EventLib::], # too buggy
    [Qt::                   => AnyEvent::Impl::Qt::],       # requires special main program
    [POE::Kernel::          => AnyEvent::Impl::POE::],      # lasciate ogni speranza
    [Wx::                   => AnyEvent::Impl::POE::],
    [Prima::                => AnyEvent::Impl::POE::],
+   # IO::Async is just too broken - we would need workaorunds for its
+   # byzantine signal and broken child handling, among others.
+   # IO::Async is rather hard to detect, as it doesn't have any
+   # obvious default class.
+#   [IO::Async::            => AnyEvent::Impl::IOAsync::],  # requires special main program
+#   [IO::Async::Loop::      => AnyEvent::Impl::IOAsync::],  # requires special main program
+#   [IO::Async::Notifier::  => AnyEvent::Impl::IOAsync::],  # requires special main program
 );
 our %method = map +($_ => 1),
    qw(io timer time now now_update signal child idle condvar one_event DESTROY);
 }
 # utility function to dup a filehandle. this is used by many backends
 # to support binding more than one watcher per filehandle (they usually
 # allow only one watcher per fd, so we dup it to get a different one).
-sub _dupfh($$$$) {
+sub _dupfh($$;$$) {
    my ($poll, $fh, $r, $w) = @_;
    # cygwin requires the fh mode to be matching, unix doesn't
    my ($rw, $mode) = $poll eq "r" ? ($r, "<")
                    : $poll eq "w" ? ($w, ">")
         EV/Any   100000   224   2.88   0.34    0.27 EV + AnyEvent watchers
     CoroEV/Any   100000   224   2.85   0.35    0.28 coroutines + Coro::Signal
       Perl/Any   100000   452   4.13   0.73    0.95 pure perl implementation
    Event/Event    16000   517  32.20  31.80    0.81 Event native interface
      Event/Any    16000   590  35.85  31.55    1.06 Event + AnyEvent watchers
+   IOAsync/Any    16000   989  38.10  32.77   11.13 via IO::Async::Loop::IO_Poll
+   IOAsync/Any    16000   990  37.59  29.50   10.61 via IO::Async::Loop::Epoll
       Glib/Any    16000  1357 102.33  12.31   51.00 quadratic behaviour
         Tk/Any     2000  1860  27.20  66.31   14.00 SEGV with >> 2000 watchers
      POE/Event     2000  6328 109.99 751.67   14.02 via POE::Loop::Event
     POE/Select     2000  6027  94.54 809.13  579.80 via POE::Loop::Select
 performance becomes really bad with lots of file descriptors (and few of
 them active), of course, but this was not subject of this benchmark.
 The C<Event> module has a relatively high setup and callback invocation
 cost, but overall scores in on the third place.
+C<IO::Async> performs admirably well, about on par with C<Event>, even
+when using its pure perl backend.
 C<Glib>'s memory usage is quite a bit higher, but it features a
 faster callback invocation and overall ends up in the same class as
 C<Event>. However, Glib scales extremely badly, doubling the number of
 watchers increases the processing time by more than a factor of four,
 it to another server. This includes deleting the old timeout and creating
 a new one that moves the timeout into the future.
 =head3 Results
-    name sockets create  request
+     name sockets create  request
-      EV   20000  69.01    11.16
+       EV   20000  69.01    11.16
-    Perl   20000  73.32    35.87
+     Perl   20000  73.32    35.87
+  IOAsync   20000 157.00    98.14 epoll
+  IOAsync   20000 159.31   616.06 poll
-   Event   20000 212.62   257.32
+    Event   20000 212.62   257.32
-    Glib   20000 651.16  1896.30
+     Glib   20000 651.16  1896.30
-     POE   20000 349.67 12317.24 uses POE::Loop::Event
+      POE   20000 349.67 12317.24 uses POE::Loop::Event
 =head3 Discussion
 This benchmark I<does> measure scalability and overall performance of the
 particular event loop.
 EV is again fastest. Since it is using epoll on my system, the setup time
 is relatively high, though.
 Perl surprisingly comes second. It is much faster than the C-based event
 loops Event and Glib.
+IO::Async performs very well when using its epoll backend, and still quite
+good compared to Glib when using its pure perl backend.
 Event suffers from high setup time as well (look at its code and you will
 understand why). Callback invocation also has a high overhead compared to
 the C<< $_->() for .. >>-style loop that the Perl event loop uses. Event
 uses select or poll in basically all documented configurations.
 A handler for C<SIGCHLD> is installed by AnyEvent's child watcher
 emulation for event loops that do not support them natively. Also, some
 event loops install a similar handler.
+If, when AnyEvent is loaded, SIGCHLD is set to IGNORE, then AnyEvent will
+reset it to default, to avoid losing child exit statuses.
 =item SIGPIPE
 A no-op handler is installed for C<SIGPIPE> when C<$SIG{PIPE}> is C<undef>
 when AnyEvent gets loaded.
 =back
 =cut
+undef $SIG{CHLD}
+   if $SIG{CHLD} eq 'IGNORE';
 $SIG{PIPE} = sub { }
    unless defined $SIG{PIPE};
 =head1 FORK
 Most event libraries are not fork-safe. The ones who are usually are
 because they rely on inefficient but fork-safe C<select> or C<poll>

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