forks and threads (was: Re: META.yml how to declare the need for threaded perl?)

Christopher Brown schreef: I spent some time thinking about Dr. Ruud's reply over the past several days. Although I mostly share his views, I think that he has done a disservice to the discussion of the relative merits of threading and forking . Like most things in technology different

Re: META.yml how to declare the need for threaded perl?

I spent some time thinking about Dr. Ruud's reply over the past several days. Although I mostly share his views, I think that he has done a disservice to the discussion of the relative merits of threading and forking . Like most things in technology different approaches exploits different

Re: META.yml how to declare the need for threaded perl?

On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 01:25:17PM +, Ben Morrow wrote: Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nicholas Clark): $ /home/nclark/Sandpit/588ish/bin/perl -Mthreads -e0 This Perl not built to support threads Compilation failed in require. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted. No, this still doesn't work.

Re: META.yml how to declare the need for threaded perl?

David Cantrell schreef: eval use threads || exit(0); Alternatively written as: exit(0) unless eval use threads; (just because I wondered how strong the || was in there) -- Affijn, Ruud Gewoon is een tijger.

Re: The value of threads (was Re: META.yml how to declare the need for threaded perl?)

* Chris Dolan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-11-01 22:25]: On Nov 1, 2008, at 10:39 AM, Dr.Ruud wrote: I think it was Randal Schwartz who said something like: If the answer involves threads, then the question was wrong. Most likely that quote comes from a year when multi-processor systems were not

Re: META.yml how to declare the need for threaded perl?

Then Randall is wrong The Perl threading model is perhaps imperfect but the principle of threads is a part of many modern applications not to mention every modern OS including Solaris and MS windows xp Many client/server apps benefit from threading. Parallel processing hugely benefits from

Re: META.yml how to declare the need for threaded perl?

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 06:16:01PM -0500, Chris Dolan wrote: Just add a dependency on thread::shared or one of the other threading libraries. Push your problem up the chain! No, not threads::shared $ /home/nclark/Sandpit/588ish/bin/perl -Mthreads::shared -e0 $ threads looks a better idea:

Re: META.yml how to declare the need for threaded perl?

Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nicholas Clark): On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 06:16:01PM -0500, Chris Dolan wrote: Just add a dependency on thread::shared or one of the other threading libraries. Push your problem up the chain! No, not threads::shared $ /home/nclark/Sandpit/588ish/bin/perl

Re: META.yml how to declare the need for threaded perl?

Gabor Szabo schreef: I guess we can implement everything with fork but I think - maybe because of my lack of experience in threads - that it will be better to use them than to fork. I think it was Randal Schwartz who said something like: If the answer involves threads, then the question was

Re: META.yml how to declare the need for threaded perl?

* On Sat, Nov 01 2008, Dr.Ruud wrote: Gabor Szabo schreef: I guess we can implement everything with fork but I think - maybe because of my lack of experience in threads - that it will be better to use them than to fork. I think it was Randal Schwartz who said something like: If the answer

Re: META.yml how to declare the need for threaded perl?

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Jonathan Rockway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, I wouldn't use threads for this, but that doesn't make threading an unreasonable approach. I would use POE. +1 I assume that POE::Loop::Wx should integrate into Padre pretty easily, yes? -- David

The value of threads (was Re: META.yml how to declare the need for threaded perl?)

On Nov 1, 2008, at 10:39 AM, Dr.Ruud wrote: Gabor Szabo schreef: I guess we can implement everything with fork but I think - maybe because of my lack of experience in threads - that it will be better to use them than to fork. I think it was Randal Schwartz who said something like: If the

META.yml how to declare the need for threaded perl?

Hi, currently I have this code in Build.PL to check if the perl where Padre is being installed is threaded. use Config; if (not $Config{usethreads}) { warn Padre requires a perl built using threads\n; exit 0; } Is there any way to add this requirement to META.yml? Gabor

Re: META.yml how to declare the need for threaded perl?

* On Fri, Oct 31 2008, Gabor Szabo wrote: Hi, currently I have this code in Build.PL to check if the perl where Padre is being installed is threaded. use Config; if (not $Config{usethreads}) { warn Padre requires a perl built using threads\n; exit 0; } Probably off topic,

Re: META.yml how to declare the need for threaded perl?

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Jonathan Rockway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * On Fri, Oct 31 2008, Gabor Szabo wrote: Hi, currently I have this code in Build.PL to check if the perl where Padre is being installed is threaded. use Config; if (not $Config{usethreads}) { warn Padre

Re: META.yml how to declare the need for threaded perl?

Just add a dependency on thread::shared or one of the other threading libraries. Push your problem up the chain! Chris On Oct 31, 2008, at 7:31 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote: Hi, currently I have this code in Build.PL to check if the perl where Padre is being installed is threaded. use Config;