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[2]: programming multithreaded applications in perl

2004-06-18 Thread du4mi
Hello Robert, Friday, June 18, 2004, 12:54:37 PM, Robert Friberg wrote: RF> Excerpt from perlthrtut: RF> The ideal way to reduce these costs is to have a RF> relatively short number of long-lived threads, all created fairly early on - RF> before the base thread has accumulated too much data. g

RE: programming multithreaded applications in perl

2004-06-18 Thread Robert Friberg
From: Michael Suess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 3:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: programming multithreaded applications in perl > > > Hi, > > in the perlfaq1-manual, there is the following statement: > > "For various reasons

programming multithreaded applications in perl

2004-06-17 Thread Michael Suess
Hi, in the perlfaq1-manual, there is the following statement: "For various reasons, Perl is probably not well-suited for real-time embedded systems, low-level operating systems development work like device drivers or context-switching code, complex multi-threaded shared-memory applications, or