My script fetches pages which _need_ to be got sequentially. That said, it processes each page into a single global HTML::Element containing the extracted information in all of them. It's slow. I had it all in my head, something like: 

my @threads : shared;
for ($start .. $end) {
    $agent->follow_link(text => "Next") or last;
    $threads[$_] = threads->new(\&action, $agent->content(), $_);
}

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To at least not keep the `process'/`fetch' steps waiting for each other. Each thread would process its page and push the content to the $root, join()'ng the previous one halfway through. Needless to say, I failed miserably. ithreads functionality doesn't even come close to what it would take for this to work(Looks like there are similar ways to achieve this with ithreads). OK, I said, but I'm having a hard time finding a clean way to do this, i.e, with no temp files. Any ideas welcomed.

In reply to ithreads weren't the way.. still searching by hlen

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