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Old 03-17-2004, 06:52 AM   #1
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does anybody know a site where i can learn about threading in perl?

can perl do this? thanks
 
Old 03-17-2004, 09:02 AM   #2
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In 5.8 version YES! Real Threading, not simulated. Read this article:
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/11/threads.html

Surprised you didn't find this on Google
 
Old 03-17-2004, 10:27 AM   #3
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Wow, thanks for bringing this up!! I had such difficulties writing an MSN client in perl because of the crappy threading...this makes life so much easier!
 
Old 04-04-2004, 06:19 PM   #4
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Threading in Perl is pretty simple and powerful. Check out this perldoc for 'threads' as well as the new tutorial on threads in Perl. The speed difference seen when forking vs. creating a new thread in Perl doesn't seem to be that significant, so don't switch to threads in Perl for performance reasons.
 
Old 04-04-2004, 09:51 PM   #5
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The speed difference seen when forking vs. creating a new thread in Perl doesn't seem to be that significant
You're a good man. That's because the performance difference between forking vs. creating a new thread on *linux* is very small. I hate looking at obfuscated code because somebody thought they were being performance concious
 
  


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