-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2010-1414 2010-02-02 20:22:28 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : perl-forks Product : Fedora 12 Version : 0.33 Release : 3.fc12 URL : http://search.cpan.org/~rybskej/perl-forks-0.33/ Summary : A drop-in replacement for Perl threads using fork() Description : The forks.pm module is a drop-in replacement for threads.pm. It has the same syntax as the threads.pm module (it even takes over its namespace) but has some significant differences: - you do _not_ need a special (threaded) version of Perl - it is _much_ more economic with memory usage on OS's that support COW - it is more efficient in the startup of threads - it is slightly less efficient in the stopping of threads - it is less efficient in inter-thread communication If for nothing else, it allows you to use the Perl threading model in non-threaded Perl builds and in older versions of Perl (5.6.0 and higher are supported). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: The forks.pm module is a drop-in replacement for threads.pm. It has the same syntax as the threads.pm module (it even takes over its namespace) but has some significant differences: - you do _not_ need a special (threaded) version of Perl - it is _much_ more economic with memory usage on OS's that support COW - it is more efficient in the startup of threads - it is slightly less efficient in the stopping of threads - it is less efficient in inter-thread communication If for nothing else, it allows you to use the Perl threading model in non- threaded Perl builds and in older versions of Perl (5.6.0 and higher are supported). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #507491 - Review Request: perl-forks - A drop-in replacement for Perl threads using fork() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507491 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update perl-forks' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
