Re^2: ithreads picks fight with LWP::Agent; everybody loses

That I do not know; I haven't had the opportunity to run it on a 32-bit machine. I'll see if we have one handy, and thanks for the recommendation.

I was unaware that 64-bit installs have that rep. This is obviously a hole in my knowledge that needs filling. Are there any resources in particular you'd recommend discussing what to avoid in Perl on a 64-bit machine? When the code goes "sproing!", so does my performance review.

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Re^3: ithreads picks fight with LWP::Agent; everybody loses
by jepri (Parson) on Feb 27, 2008 at 10:24 UTC

Are there any resources in particular you'd recommend discussing what to avoid in Perl on a 64-bit machine?

Don't use source filters. Also, don't use threads. Keep away from extensions written in C, since most C programmers still can't understand why they shouldn't store pointers in INTs.

More generally, (system) threads are a bad solution for most problems. If you want to download a lot of files, for instance, you'll be better served using asynchronous calls than threads. For starters, your programs won't crash.

Edit: use something like this instead: forks

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