OK, thanks for that. I am happy to run with Perl 5.8 or later as a requirement.

So it seems I do this by having a single interpreter that I perl_clone(my_perl, CLONEf_CLONE_HOST) for each thread, throwing away the clone when the thread ends and/or pulling from a pool of pre-existing clones?

A good analogy for what this is doing is a basic web server (note: this is not a web server - I'm not that stupid). ie: Short-lived requests serviced over a network connection. Is perl_cloning going to be fast or do I need to do some sort of thread pooling (which I may do anyway) to get it to perform? (or should I stop being so damn lazy and just test the peformance myself ;-))

Or, do I want to learn Perl and try to make it all happen with Perl threads (which will involve learning Perl - I didn't write the script we want to execute)?

Thanks again,

Phil

In reply to Re: Re: Externally managed threads using embedded Perl by Anonymous Monk
in thread Externally managed threads using embedded Perl by Anonymous Monk

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