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| 2 | Name: Memoize | |
| 3 | What: Transparently speed up functions by caching return values. | |
| 4 | Version: 1.00 | |
| 5 | Author: Mark-Jason Dominus (mjd-perl-memoize+@plover.com) | |
| 6 | ||
| 7 | ################################################################ | |
| 8 | ||
| 9 | How to build me: | |
| 10 | ||
| 11 | perl Makefile.PL | |
| 12 | make | |
| 13 | make test | |
| 14 | ||
| 15 | There's a very small chance that the tests in speed.t and | |
| 16 | expire_module_t.t might fail because of clock skew or bizarre system | |
| 17 | load conditions. If the tests there fail, rerun them and see if the | |
| 18 | problem persists. | |
| 19 | ||
| 20 | If the tests work, | |
| 21 | ||
| 22 | make install | |
| 23 | ||
| 24 | If not, please send me a report that mentions which tests failed. | |
| 25 | The address is: mjd-perl-memoize+@plover.com. | |
| 26 | ||
| 27 | ################################################################ | |
| 28 | What's new since 0.66: | |
| 29 | ||
| 30 | Minor documentation and test changes only. | |
| 31 | ||
| 32 | ################################################################ | |
| 33 | What's new since 0.65: | |
| 34 | ||
| 35 | Test changes only. | |
| 36 | ||
| 37 | 0.62 was the fist version that would be distributed with Perl. | |
| 38 | I got so absorbed in integrating it that I wrote some tests | |
| 39 | that used Time::HiRes. I knew this was safe because | |
| 40 | Time::HiRes is also distributed with the same versions of | |
| 41 | Perl. I totally forgot that some people will get the module | |
| 42 | off of CPAN without Perl and they may not have TIme::HiRes. | |
| 43 | Sorry! | |
| 44 | ||
| 45 | ################################################################ | |
| 46 | What's new since 0.62: | |
| 47 | ||
| 48 | ||
| 49 | N O T I C E ! | |
| 50 | ||
| 51 | **************************************************************** | |
| 52 | ** ** | |
| 53 | ** The TIE option is now strongly deprecated. It will be ** | |
| 54 | ** permanently removed in the NEXT release of Memoize. ** | |
| 55 | ** Please convert all extant software to use HASH instead. ** | |
| 56 | ** ** | |
| 57 | ** See the manual for details. ** | |
| 58 | ** ** | |
| 59 | **************************************************************** | |
| 60 | ||
| 61 | I'm sorry about this. I hate making incompatible changes. But as of | |
| 62 | v0.65, Memoize is included in the Perl core. It is about to become | |
| 63 | much more difficult to make incompatible interface changes; if I don't | |
| 64 | get rid of TIE now, I may not get another chance. | |
| 65 | ||
| 66 | TIE presented serious problems. First, it had a bizarre syntax. But | |
| 67 | the big problem was that it was difficult and complicated for | |
| 68 | expiration manager authors to support; evern expiration manager had to | |
| 69 | duplicate the logic for handling TIE. HASH is much simpler to use, | |
| 70 | more powerful, and is trivial for expiration managers to support. | |
| 71 | ||
| 72 | Many long-awaited cleanups and bug fixes. | |
| 73 | ||
| 74 | Memoize now works under threaded perl | |
| 75 | ||
| 76 | Slow tests speeded up. More test file improvements. | |
| 77 | ||
| 78 | Long-standing LIST_CACHE bug cleared up---it turns out that there | |
| 79 | never was a bug. I put in tests for it anyway. | |
| 80 | ||
| 81 | Manual increased. | |
| 82 |