You don't tell us why your script is slow. Until you've determined what is holding your script back, there is very little sense in throwing multiple CPUs at it. MCE will likely need a major rewrite of your script to make it work in parallel, and you haven't told us that your script is CPU bound.

If you can compile your own Perl, compiling a Perl without thread support usually gives roughly 10% performance improvement.

Using a different algorithm can speed up your program by large factors.

Caching more data between runs can also speed up your program vastly, at the cost of disk space.

First of all, you have to determine where your program is slow. Devel::NYTProf will likely help you there.

In reply to Re: Does anyone know about the Multi-CPU Module by Corion
in thread Does anyone know about the Multi-CPU Module by Anonymous Monk

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