The quest for mulithreaded Perl

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

Greetings Monks, As I have just reinstalled slackware on my laptop, I start out with Perl 5.6.1. I have read that Perl 5.8.0 has better threading support even over 5.6.1. I have searched nodes for threading and found a node from 2000 that says "DON'T DO THREADS in perl." This is more of a general question to all of you to get an idea of who has successfully used threads in perl. In the evil world of java, threading is simple, such as a clock applet I created.

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Re: The quest for mulithreaded Perl by BazB (Priest) on Feb 20, 2003 at 16:51 UTC
Supersearch for nodes on threads - there have been a number of good nodes recently. I asked this question a while back - just as 5.8.0 was being released: Status and usefulness of ithreads in 5.8.0 Update: Also see Threads versus fork, which to use? If the information in this post is inaccurate, or just plain wrong, don't just downvote - please post explaining what's wrong. That way everyone learns.	[reply]
Re: The quest for mulithreaded Perl by castaway (Parson) on Feb 20, 2003 at 18:13 UTC
I've used Threads in Perl, and I'm still using that App. :) (It's using 5.005 threads in 5.6.1 though, I've not got around to converting to the new ithreads yet, it looks like that could be difficult.) here is a link to a tutorial using ithreads. Seems simple enough :) C.	[reply]
Re: The quest for mulithreaded Perl by jasonk (Parson) on Feb 20, 2003 at 23:02 UTC
I have a handful of massively threaded 5.8.0 applications, and I think the threading support in perl is great. I especially applaud the authors of Thread::Pool, Thread::Status, Thread::Queue, and Thread::Conveyor, who have made my life a whole lot easier.	[reply]