Re: programming multithreaded applications in perl

2004-06-18 Thread PerlDiscuss - Perl Newsgroups and mailing lists
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Straight from the BUGS section of the threads module POD: "Creating threads inside BEGIN blocks (or during the compilation phase in general) does not work. (In Windows, trying to use fork() inside BEGIN blocks is an equally losing proposition, since it has been implemented

RE: programming multithreaded applications in perl

2004-06-18 Thread Robert Friberg
Hi, Threading is one of the few issues to be cautions about with perl. Excerpt from perlthrtut: "The main thing to bear in mind when comparing ithreads to other threading models is the fact that for each new thread created, a complete copy of all the variables and data of the parent thread has t