#! perl -slw use strict; use Time::HiRes qw[ time sleep ]; use threads; use Thread::Queue; $| = 1; our $N ||= 10; our $THREADS ||= 2; our $DELAY ||= 2; my $running : shared = 0; sub t{ $running++; my( $Q )= @_; my $tid = threads->self->tid; while( my $time = $Q->dequeue ) { sleep .1 until time() >= $time; print "$tid ($time) : ", time(); sleep $DELAY; } $running--; } my $Q = new Thread::Queue; threads->create( \&t, $Q )->detach for 1 .. $THREADS; my $start = int time(); $Q->enqueue( $_ ) for $start + 2 .. $start + 2 + $N; $Q->enqueue( undef ) for 1 .. $THREADS; sleep 1 while $running; __END__ P:\test>455833 -THREADS=2 -N=10 -DELAY=1 1 (1115781909) : 1115781909 2 (1115781910) : 1115781910.09375 1 (1115781911) : 1115781911.09375 2 (1115781912) : 1115781912.07813 1 (1115781913) : 1115781913.07813 2 (1115781914) : 1115781914.0625 1 (1115781915) : 1115781915.0625 2 (1115781916) : 1115781916.04688 1 (1115781917) : 1115781917.04688 2 (1115781918) : 1115781918.03125 1 (1115781919) : 1115781919.03125 P:\test>455833 -THREADS=2 -N=10 -DELAY=3 1 (1115781925) : 1115781925.07813 2 (1115781926) : 1115781926.0625 1 (1115781927) : 1115781928.07813 2 (1115781928) : 1115781929.0625 1 (1115781929) : 1115781931.07813 2 (1115781930) : 1115781932.0625 1 (1115781931) : 1115781934.07813 2 (1115781932) : 1115781935.0625 1 (1115781933) : 1115781937.07813 2 (1115781934) : 1115781938.0625 1 (1115781935) : 1115781940.07813 P:\test>455833 -THREADS=3 -N=10 -DELAY=3 1 (1115781957) : 1115781957.07813 2 (1115781958) : 1115781958.0625 3 (1115781959) : 1115781959.04688 1 (1115781960) : 1115781960.07813 2 (1115781961) : 1115781961.0625 3 (1115781962) : 1115781962.04688 1 (1115781963) : 1115781963.07813 2 (1115781964) : 1115781964.0625 3 (1115781965) : 1115781965.04688 1 (1115781966) : 1115781966.07813 2 (1115781967) : 1115781967.0625