Hi karlgoethebier,

Update: Ah, the OP wants to read DATA independently. See tybalt89's solution.

Update: Currently, the following demos work on Unix platforms with IO::FDPass: automatically loaded by MCE::Shared if present in Perl. The next update to MCE::Shared on CPAN will support reading from the DATA handle without involving IO::FDPass and work on Windows including Cygwin.

MCE::Shared works similarly with threads and MCE::Hobo.

threads demonstration

use strict;
use warnings;

use threads;
use MCE::Shared;

mce_open my $shared_fh, '<', \*DATA;

async {
  print "Start Thread\n";
  while (<$shared_fh>) {
    print "T: $_"; sleep 1;
  }
  print "Stop Thread\n";
};

print "Start Parent\n";
while (<$shared_fh>) {
  print "P: $_"; sleep 1;
}
print "Stop Parent\n";

$_->join for threads->list;

__DATA__
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[download]

MCE::Hobo demonstration

use strict;
use warnings;

use MCE::Hobo;
use MCE::Shared;

mce_open my $shared_fh, '<', \*DATA;

mce_async {
  print "Start Child\n";
  while (<$shared_fh>) {
    print "C: $_"; sleep 1;
  }
  print "Stop Child\n";
};

print "Start Parent\n";
while (<$shared_fh>) {
  print "P: $_"; sleep 1;
}
print "Stop Parent\n";

MCE::Hobo->waitall;

__DATA__
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[download]

Regards, Mario

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