use MCE::Grep; my @a = mce_grep { $_ % 5 == 0 } 1..10000; #### use threads; use Thread::Queue; my @thread_pool; my $q = Thread::Queue->new(); my $results = Thread::Queue->new(); for (0..10000) { $q->enqueue($_); } for (0..1) { push @thread_pool, threads->create( \&grep ); } sub grep { while (my $work = $q->dequeue() ) { if ( $work % 5 == 0 ) { $results->enqueue($work); } } $q->enqueue(undef); } map {$_->join(); } (@thread_pool); $results->enqueue(undef); my @results; while ( my $result = $results->dequeue() ) { print $result, "\n"; push @results, $result; }