What version of Perl are you running? There is an interesting new module called Future / Future::AsyncAwait. It requires Perl 5.24 atm though.

With it, what you want is as easy as: 
async sub fire-and-forget
{
    do-stuff();
}
    
fire-and-forget(); #returns immedeatly, runs in parallel

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The author gave a talk about this at this years Perl Conference in Amsterdam1.

1This is where Vince Vega had the time of his life.


holli

You can lead your users to water, but alas, you cannot drown them.

In reply to Re: Advice: Async Options for fire-and-forget subroutine by holli
in thread Advice: Async Options for fire-and-forget subroutine by mwb613

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