That's great thanks, sorry for the lame question. I've been looking at the old perl 5.6 documentation, which makes no explicit mention of this in the man pages.
Gavin. -----Original Message----- From: KONG LI [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 02 December 2002 23:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Multiple embedded perl interpreters in different threads The answer is yes, and I have done that sometime ago with perl 5.6.1. Take a look of http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlembed.html#Maintaining-multiple -interpreter-instances. The key is to invoke the PERL_SET_CONTEXT macro in front of any perl API. Good luck. Kong > Hi, > > I am writing an application that uses perl embedded in a C++ program. > The perl man pages/faq makes it very clear on how to create and maintain > multiple perl interpreter instances. It does not mention whether these > instances can be used in different threads. > > The latest version of the application I am writing uses a thread > pool for its processing, and it would be nice to be able to a separate > perl interpreter in each of these threads. > > So my question is, does the ithread implementation allow multiple > instances > of the perl interpreter to be run in separate application threads? Does > anyone know of any examples that do this, or perhaps a better way of > doing achieving the same goal. -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup One click access to the Top Search Engines http://www.exactsearchbar.com/mailcom
