how to adapt this to incrementing strings perl-style

See a a recent example where I showed exactly that, using tie with MCE::Shared (that example shows incrementing the value of keys in a hash; see the MCE::Shared doc for sharing a scalar via tie).

Alternatively, if you are using MCE::Shared's OO interface it provides sugar methods (shown here using MCE::Hobo for workers): 

my $shared = MCE::Shared->scalar(0);

sub task {
    $shared->incrby(1);
}

MCE::Hobo->init( max_workers => 8, posix_exit  => 1 );
MCE::Hobo->create( \&task, $_ ) for 0 .. 41;
MCE::Hobo->wait_all;

END {
    print "The answer is $shared\n";
}

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Hope this helps!


The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

In reply to Re^3: Getting started with MCE (the Many-Core Engine) by 1nickt
in thread Getting started with MCE (the Many-Core Engine) by Anonymous Monk

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