Multithreading in Perl

TraderX has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Has anybody ever been to get the Thread extension module to work under ActivePerl? I don't want to use ithreads that is supported under ActivePerl basically because I'm not really that familiar with it. Any suggestions and ideas are greatly appreciated.

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Re: Multithreading in Perl by LD2 (Curate) on Aug 13, 2001 at 23:05 UTC
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Re (tilly) 1: Multithreading in Perl by tilly (Archbishop) on Aug 14, 2001 at 08:17 UTC
I advise that you not try to use threads under Perl. See Threads vs Forking (Java vs Perl) for details.	[reply]
Re: Multithreading in Perl by nakor (Novice) on Aug 14, 2001 at 17:54 UTC
Don't do it! The Thread extension has the potential to horribly crash any program using it, unless you are _extremely_ careful in how you access shared variables. When 5.8.0 comes out, you should try the new threads.pm (build around ithreads). However, if you're really gung-ho... AFIK, Thread.pm is not supported under modern (5.6.0+ -derived) ActivePerl builds, so you'll either need a 5.005-based one, or need to build your own (I'd recommend this, so you can still get the benefit of all the fixes in 5.6.1). However, bear in mind that the Win32 fork() emulation is not compatible with Thread.pm. One closing message: Remember that there is no such thing as a readonly access in Perl	[reply]