Hey all. I'm working with a Perl script where I want to break off a certain part of execution into multiple threads. Right now, I'm attempting to do a calculation based on two variables, and based on a certain condition, put them back into a shared array.
Unfortunately, I'm running into a problem. I want the array to be shared, but I don't want the two variables that the computation is done on to be shared, since different threads are going to be working simultaneously on different values of the variables. I also don't want to join() back threads, so just returning the values won't work. This is due to the fact that there will be a flag to the program limiting the number of spawned threads. With my current implementation, I just make a semaphore with the maximum number of threads as its argument, and then do a down() before executing each thread, and an up() when finishing. So no, a join() won't work in this case, because it would eliminate my ability to accurately and efficiently limit the number of executing threads at any given time. Is this at all possible? -- Stephen Touset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
