Im in the process of downloading Activstate 5.8 for Win32, and am keen to get some threading shenanigans going on.
Ive used the pseudo-fork() with some success in 5.6 and have some code I'd like to impliment in threads 'proper'.Ive read the perldocs and associated stuff, but am not totally sure I'm getting it - particularly where i should be join()ing.

consider this pseudo-fork() code

foreach (1..10)
{
    my $pid;
     print "$$ starting loop $_";
 
    if( $pid = fork())
    {
        print "$$ created child $pid";
    }
    else
    {
        print "\t", "child $$ created ok";
        sleep(int(rand(10)));
        print "\t", "child $$ done, outta here";
        exit;
    }

    print "$$ exiting loop $_" if $pid;
}

# 1 while wait != -1;     # *cough*
print "$$ all done!";

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would this be a similar implementation using threads - and if so, where should i be join()ing or detach()ing? 
use threads;

foreach(1..10) 
{
     print "$$ starting loop $_";
    
    my $kid = new threads(\&wasPsuedoFork);

    print "$$ exiting loop $_";
}

sub wasPsuedoFork 
{
    print "\tchild ", threads->tid() " created ok";
    sleep(int(rand(10)));
    print "\tchild", threads->tid() , " done, outta here";
}

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