You wanna do thing the st hard way; have fun.......

It's actually out of a desire to avoid doing things the stupid way that I posted my question to the Monastery in the first place. An abundance of problems have been pointed out by several people -- problems that are already solved by existing "wheels" on the CPAN that I'd almost certainly be better off to not reinvent.

So my "sane" options are singular: to extend a given stable wheel (Net::Server?) via some sort of data/state sharing mechanism so that when any given listener is presented with a task ID, that it is able to retrieve the output of that task beginning from the last time it was polled. Designing and implementing that will be my biggest challenge. I still want to avoid using a database for this, but may have to fall back on that option.

As for the stupidity, the overhead of constantly polling the service every N seconds is a necessary evil that I see no way to avoid. The aces up my sleeve are that it's not going to have to expand beyond ~20 concurrent users for the foreseeable future, and it's on a very, very fast LAN. I've already personally seen Net::Server scale well past that kind of load on lesser networks.

I appreciate your insight BrowserUk, and that of all others who have joined in on the conversation.

 

Tommy
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