=head1 NAME
AnyEvent::Impl::Perl - Pure-Perl event loop and AnyEvent adaptor for itself
=head1 SYNOPSIS
use AnyEvent;
# use AnyEvent::Impl::Perl;
# this module gets loaded automatically as required
=head1 DESCRIPTION
This module provides transparent support for AnyEvent in case no other
event loop could be found or loaded. You don't have to do anything to make
it work with AnyEvent except by possibly loading it before creating the
first AnyEvent watcher.
If you want to use this module instead of autoloading another event loop
you can simply load it before creating the first watcher.
As for performance, this module is on par with (and usually faster than)
most select/poll-based C event modules such as Event or Glib (it does
not come close to EV, though), with respect to I/O watchers. Timers are
handled less optimally.
This event loop has been optimised for the following cases:
=over 4
=item monotonic clock is available
This module will use the POSIX monotonic clock option if it can be
detected at runtime, in which case it will not suffer adversely from time
jumps.
If no monotonic clock is available, this module will not attempt to
correct for time jumps in any way.
The clock chosen will be reported if the environment variable
C<$PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE> is set to 8 or higher.
=item lots of watchers on one fd
This is purely a dirty benchmark optimisation not relevant in practise.
The more common case of having one watcher per fd/poll combo is
special-cased and still fast.
=item relatively few active fds per select call
This module expects that only a tiny amount of fds is active at any one
time. This is relatively typical of larger servers (but not the case where
select traditionally is fast), at the expense of the "dense activity case"
where most of fds are active (which suits select and poll). The optimal
implementation of the "dense" case is not much faster, though, so the
module should behave very well in most cases.
=item lots of timer changes/iteration, or none at all
This module sorts the timer list again on each iteration, if timers have
been created. If you add lots of timers, this is pretty efficient, but the
common case of only adding a few timers is not handled very efficiently.
This should not have much of an impact unless you have hundreds of timers,
though.
=back
=cut
package AnyEvent::Impl::Perl;
no warnings;
use strict;
use Time::HiRes ();
use Scalar::Util ();
use AnyEvent ();
use AnyEvent::Util ();
our $VERSION = 4.151;
our ($NOW, $MNOW);
BEGIN {
local $SIG{__DIE__};
if (0 < eval "&Time::HiRes::clock_gettime (&Time::HiRes::CLOCK_MONOTONIC)") {
*_update_clock = sub {
$NOW = Time::HiRes::time;
$MNOW = Time::HiRes::clock_gettime (&Time::HiRes::CLOCK_MONOTONIC);
};
warn "AnyEvent::Impl::Perl using CLOCK_MONOTONIC as timebase.\n" if $AnyEvent::verbose >= 8;
} else {
*_update_clock = sub {
$NOW = $MNOW = Time::HiRes::time;
};
warn "AnyEvent::Impl::Perl using default (non-monotonic) clock as timebase.\n" if $AnyEvent::verbose >= 8;
}
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