techman2006 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
How can I update a global variable across threads as I am getting garbage value for the variable across threads.
Below is sample code which shows the problem
use strict; use warnings; use threads; my $currentWrite = 10; my $totalSize = 1000; sub Progress { my $size = shift; $currentWrite += $size; my $currentProgress = $currentWrite / 100; print "Done ", $currentProgress, " of ", $totalSize, "\n"; } sub test { my $countRef = shift; my $count = $$countRef; Progress ( 11); print "Current count is $count\n"; } Progress(10); my $numThreads = 5; my @arrThreads; for my $i ( 1 .. $numThreads) { my $t = threads->create( \&test, \$i); push( @arrThreads, $t); } foreach (@arrThreads) { my $num = $_->join; }
Below is the output of above program.
# perl thrprog.pl Done 0.2 of 1000 Done 0.31 of 1000 Current count is 2 Done 0.31 of 1000 Current count is 1 Done 0.31 of 1000 Current count is 3 Done 0.31 of 1000 Current count is 4 Done 0.31 of 1000 Current count is 5
How to share the data across threads so that the value get updated properly.
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Re: Updating global variable in multi-threaded program
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 29, 2014 at 12:04 UTC | |
Re: Updating global variable in multi-threaded program
by zentara (Archbishop) on Jan 29, 2014 at 12:53 UTC | |
Re: Updating global variable in multi-threaded program
by hdb (Monsignor) on Jan 29, 2014 at 12:20 UTC |
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