I've just finished a project with threads, and they don't look like masked forks to me - they show up as the threadcount for the single perl process, like I'd expect.
Yitzchak Avishalom Shalit wrote: > resending > > 2009/6/8 Avishalom Shalit <[email protected]> > >> i had used pearl threads, >> it isn't too complicated and most things i needed were threadsafe. >> however , they are not lightweight at all, >> they are masked forks, and like forks, you really want to spawn them as >> early as possible . >> >> what do you need them for ? >> >> 2009/6/8 Yossi Itzkovich <[email protected]> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I would like to ask how you people work with parallel jobs >>> (processes/threads) in Perl (>=5.8.4). >>> I know there are simple built in commands (open, fork etc.) but I am asking >>> about higher order managers. >>> Threads might be good - but not enabled by default in Perl build -so I am >>> limited (also not all modules are thread safe). >>> I have been using Parallel::Jobs for a while, and I read a little about >>> Parallel::Forker, but I wanted to know if there are better alternatives out >>> there. >>> >>> >>> Thanks for your help. >>> >>> Yossi >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Perl mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl >>> >> >> -- >> -- vish >> > > > > -- > -- vish > _______________________________________________ > Perl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl > _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
