Upon closer inspection, the manager process appears to be doing some heavy lifting inside the output iterator. The change below moves some of that to the worker process. This change frees the manager process from unnecessary overhead.

# MCE task to run in parallel

sub work {
   my ($mce, $chunk_ref, $chunk_id) = @_;
   my $data = $chunk_ref->[0];
   my @ret = ();

   foreach my $chunk (@$data) {
      my %output = ();

      foreach my $key (keys %$chunk) {
         if ($key eq '.') {
            $output{$key} = $$chunk{$key};
            next;
         }
         my $val = $$chunk{$key};
         my $uc = uc($key);
         $val =~ s/$key/$uc/g;
         $output{$key} = $val;
      }

      push(@ret,\%output);
   }

   my $buf = '';

   foreach my $data (@ret) {
      foreach my $key (sort keys %$data) {
         $buf .= $$data{$key};
      }
      $buf .= "\n";
   }

   MCE->gather($chunk_id, $buf);
}

# make an output closure, returns an iterator

sub make_iter_output {
   my ($path) = @_;
   my %hold; my $order_id = 1;

   open my $fh, '>', $path or die "open error: $!";

   return sub {
      my $chunk_id = shift;

      # hold temporarily, until orderly
      $hold{$chunk_id} = $_[0];  # $buf

      while (1) {
         last unless exists($hold{$order_id});
         print {$fh} delete($hold{$order_id});

         $order_id++;
      }
   };
}

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Regards, Mario.

In reply to Re^6: shared scalar freed early by marioroy
in thread shared scalar freed early by chris212

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