Then Randall is wrong The Perl threading model is perhaps imperfect but the principle of threads is a part of many modern applications not to mention every modern OS including Solaris and MS windows xp
Many client/server apps benefit from threading. Parallel processing hugely benefits from threading b/c you have readily-shared memory ------Original Message------ From: Dr.Ruud To: module-authors@perl.org Sent: Nov 1, 2008 11:39 AM Subject: Re: META.yml how to declare the need for threaded perl? Gabor Szabo schreef: > I guess we can implement everything with fork but I think - > maybe because of my lack of experience in threads - that it will > be better to use them than to fork. I think it was Randal Schwartz who said something like: If the answer involves threads, then the question was wrong. -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger." Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone with Nextel Direct Connect
