Sure thing. I'm running on a P4 with Linux 2.4.9. Here's a simple test I tried, using perl 5.8.4: 

# which threading model do we want?
use threads;
#use forks;


$num_threads = shift(@ARGV) || 10;

foreach (0..$num_threads-1) {
    # create a new thread
    push(@threads,threads->new(\&thread_sub));
}

foreach $thread (@threads) {
    # wait for threads to finish
    $thread->join();
}

printf "Orig thread done\n";

sub thread_sub {
    printf "Thread %d started\n",threads->tid();
}

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When I run time on a series of runs with threads.pm/forks.pm, I can't tell how much cpu time forks.pm really uses because I only get the cpu time of the parent (working on that), but I the average page faults looks like this: 

threads.pm:
  Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 387.00
  Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 1151.20

forks.pm:
  Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 470.00
  Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 4591.20

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Wall clock time, for what that's worth (these are all run on the same machine), is consistently 4x for forks vs threads.

In reply to Re: Re: latest on ithreads vs forks? by Anonymous Monk
in thread latest on ithreads vs forks? by Anonymous Monk

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