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Activestate perl and Threads

by chorg (Monk)

on Feb 10, 2001 at 22:37 UTC ( [id://57641]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml )

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chorg has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm confused about something concerning threads in Perl 5.6.0 (ActiveState)

I want to try some _simple_ threading apps just to check it out. I read the docs, and I checked out threads in the search, but I wanted to know if I could use ithreads yet, and if so, how. I know about Threads.pm, but in the source distro, it says that that is a feature of perl 5.005. Has there been any changes in threading in perl 5.6.0, and are they usable in the least?

If I could use threads, I could hide from Java forever...
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(tye)Re: Activestate perl and Threads
by tye (Sage) on Feb 11, 2001 at 09:14 UTC

Perl 5.6 saw yet another threading model. So when you get ActivePerl, it has been built with this new threading model that simulates fork() by starting another thread with another Perl interpretter that is given a copy of the running interpretter's state.

No, in my experience, it isn't more than the slightest bit useful. 90% of the simple things I tried failed in strange and scary ways.

If you compile Perl yourself, then you can use the ithreads interface with Perl 5.6. I've heard of people actually doing productive work with it. I've also heard there are a lot of gotchas so you have to work around those.

tye

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