Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jeffrey Ratcliffe <jeffrey.ratcli...@gmail.com>
* Package name : libforks-perl * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/forks/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl extension for emulating threads with fork The forks.pm module is a drop-in replacement for threads.pm. It has the same syntax as the threads.pm module (it even takes over its namespace) but has some significant differences: - you do _not_ need a special (threaded) version of Perl - it is _much_ more economic with memory usage on OS's that support COW - it is more efficient in the startup of threads - it is slightly less efficient in the stopping of threads - it is less efficient in inter-thread communication If nothing else, it allows you to use the Perl threading model in non-threaded Perl builds and in older versions of Perl (5.6.0 and higher are supported). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
