# create the worker processes
spawn task($barrier, $_) for 1..5;

##</code><code>##

MCE::Simple::_reap_joinable();
do { MCE::Simple::_async_i('', \&task, $barrier, $_) } for 1..5;

##</code><code>##

use strict;
use warnings;

use MCE;
use MCE::Barrier;
use Time::HiRes qw(time);

my $num_workers = 4000;
my $barrier = MCE::Barrier->new($num_workers);
my $start = time();

MCE->new(
   max_workers => $num_workers,
   user_func => sub {
      my $id = MCE->wid;
      for (1..400) {
         MCE->say("$_: $id");
         $barrier->wait;
      }
   }
)->run();

printf {*STDERR} "\nduration: %0.3f\n\n", time() - $start;