NAME

       Coro::Storable - offer a more fine-grained Storable interface

SYNOPSIS

        use Coro::Storable;

DESCRIPTION

       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).

FUNCTIONS

       $ref = thaw $pst
           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.

       $pst = freeze $ref
           Freeze the given scalar into a Storable object. It uses the same format as "Storable::store_fd".

           This functino will cede regularly.

       $pst = nfreeze $ref
           Same as "freeze" but is compatible to "Storable::nstore_fd" (note the "n").

       $pst = blocking_freeze $ref
           Same as "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.

       $pst = blocking_nfreeze $ref
           Same as "blocking_freeze" but uses "nfreeze" internally.

       $guard = guard
           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.

AUTHOR/SUPPORT/CONTACT

          Marc A. Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
          http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/Coro.html

perl v5.38.2                                       2024-03-31                                      Storable(3pm)