which solution you suggest to me for writting a powerful socket server ?! Use traditional IO::Select or Thread in 5.8? Please tell me your reasons if you have suggesstion. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#Traditional IO::Select Example 
use IO::Select;
use IO::Socket;

$Server = new IO::Socket::INET(Listen => 0, LocalPort => 4000, Reuse =
+> 0) || die('Can not open port 4000');
$Select = new IO::Select( $Server );

while(@allSockets = $Select->can_read) {
  foreach $ClientSocket (@allSockets) {
    if($ClientSocket == $Server) {            
      $newClient = $Server->accept;      
      $Select->add($newClient);      
    } else {
        ....
    }
}

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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#New stable Thread module in 5.8
use IO::Socket;
use Thread;

$Server = new IO::Socket::INET(Listen => 0, LocalPort => 4000, Reuse =
+> 0) || die('Can not open port 4000');


while(1) {
   $newClientSocket=$Server->accept;
   new Thread \&handleRequest,$newClientSocket;
}

sub handleRequest() {
   $clientSocket=shift;
   ...
}

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In reply to Thread or Select for sockets?! by masuoda

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