Coro::Storable - offer a more fine-grained Storable interface
use Coro::Storable;
This module implements a few functions from the Storable module in a way so that it cede's more often. Some applications (such as the Deliantra game server) sometimes need to load large Storable objects without blocking the server for a long time.
This is being implemented by using a perlio layer that feeds only small
amounts of data (4096 bytes per call) into Storable, and Coro::cede'ing
regularly (at most 100 times per second by default, though).
As Storable is not reentrant, this module also wraps most functions of the Storable module so that only one freeze or thaw is done at any one moment (and recursive invocations are not currently supported).
Retrieve an object from the given $pst, which must have been created with
Coro::Storable::freeze or Storable::store_fd/Storable::store
(sorry, but Storable uses incompatible formats for disk/mem objects).
This function will cede regularly.
Freeze the given scalar into a Storable object. It uses the same format as
Storable::store_fd.
This functino will cede regularly.
freeze but is compatible to Storable::nstore_fd (note the
n).
freeze but is guaranteed to block. This is useful e.g. in
Coro::Util::fork_eval when you want to serialise a data structure
for use with the thaw function for this module. You cannot use
Storable::freeze for this as Storable uses incompatible formats for
memory and file images, and this module uses file images.
blocking_freeze but uses nfreeze internally.
Acquire the Storable lock, for when you want to call Storable yourself.
Note that this module already wraps all Storable functions, so there is rarely the need to do this yourself.
Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de> http://home.schmorp.de/