Dean Arnold wrote: > BTW: have you looked into reusing or integrating with any > of the Clone modules ? At present, I don't think they > handle shared variables, but they're the usual mechanism > for cloning structures, and a couple of them use XS for > performance.
I'm not familiar with any of them. However, if they don't handled shared variables, I'm not sure they'd be useful unless they were modified to do make shared copies at each step. As a first step, I'll work on fixing the circular references issue in Thread::Queue. (I think I have it done, but need to test it.) Then work on moving that code to threads::shared in conjunction with overloading the '=' operator. After that, I could look into other modules and/or further optimizations. I've attached my reworked version of T::Q that I think takes care of circular references. Would you mind giving it a going over? (It passes all the currents tests in its test suite, so I know I didn't break anything.) Thanks.
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