How does AnyEvent work?

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

If Perl is single threaded how does AnyEvent work? I mean does it spawn threads ,processes? Or is it like Nodejs event loop that does io so it doesn't spawn anything? And if that is so how does it handle CPU bound operations?

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Re: How does AnyEvent work? by Corion (Patriarch) on Nov 17, 2022 at 22:52 UTC
AnyEvent is like NodeJS. Actually more appropriate, NodeJS is more like AnyEvent, as NodeJS is based on libuv, which I think is a fork of libev, the OG backend event loop for AnyEvent. Just as NodeJS, CPU bound operations block the rest, so you have to transfer them out of process.	[reply]
Re^2: How does AnyEvent work? by Anonymous Monk on Nov 18, 2022 at 08:26 UTC
>so you have to transfer them out of process. I see.So how do you do that with Perl/AnyEvent?	[reply]
Re^3: How does AnyEvent work? by Corion (Patriarch) on Nov 18, 2022 at 12:22 UTC
In general, you run a second process and send it commands to perform. See for example AnyEvent::Run, AnyEvent::Fork or any of the RPC modules.	[reply]
Re: How does AnyEvent work? by karlgoethebier (Abbot) on Nov 19, 2022 at 20:17 UTC
Some sources: libuv Epoll Kqueue IOCP A look at UV could also be interesting. Quite surprising that no one at PM seems to use it. In any case, I have not found a thread in which the module is even mentioned. ŤThe Crux of the Biscuit is the Apostropheť	[reply]

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