Why are you doing that?
Because when an object fall into a thread scope, the object will be cloned, which is not the one I want. And since threads don't share object / complex data structure ( and I don't what to share them one by one ), this trick do share the object perfectly... until it's not.

Yes - due to Perls reference counting, accessing variables in another threads memory always means that your thread will also be writing at least to the refcount field of that variable. If the refcount happens to reach zero in another thread than where the piece of memory was originally allocated, the memory will be freed in the wrong thread context, which is not fun.

I'm not aware of a way to make Perl skip its refcounting for variables, and I'm also not convinced that this could work except in the most trivial cases.

Another idea to reduce the conceptual load of the appriach might be to simply shell out to cmd /c "dir /b /s $directory", but then you need to be aware of the codepage that cmd.exe uses for its output. Ideally you have set the codepage to Unicode / 65001:

chcp 65001

[download]

... but then, you still have to live with the fun of Perl and the OS treating the octets for filenames differently unless you properly decode and encode them.

In reply to Re^3: use threads for dir tree walking really hurts by Corion
in thread use threads for dir tree walking really hurts by exilepanda

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