Hello,

Why is there a need for some 'threading' mechanism in Perl whereas it already has the 'fork' call? It appears to me that around 90% of all that threads (such as in Java) are useful for could be accomplished with the native fork() call in Perl. Also, by playing with SIG triggers/set_priority call you may be able to do without a separate threading module/mechanism.

On the other hand, though, I think it's good to have alternative approaches. Say, I'm not even sure if fork() would work well on Windows (I don't do much Perl for that system), since under Unix fork() does a 'system call' to create a child process.



"There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels." -- Confession of Faith

In reply to Re: Multi-Threading in Perl by vladb
in thread Multi-Threading in Perl by Alex the Serb

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