If the following post is just more line noise, I won't be offended if you choose not to reply.

The assumed benefit is creation of an abstract API. The performance hit taken with the extra thread should be relatively negligible because tasks should be few and relatively long running. The minister and workers can be packaged in a library module while the king and media would be interface specific. The program I'm hoping to get updated is proprietary (and written in VB...) so I can't really show you examples. The talk around the group is to not only have the desktop version but also a simplified subscription-based web version, thus my desire for abstraction. And in any case, much of this was a case of "I wonder what I can do with them" to gain familiarity with Perl's thread syntax and capabilities before I put in a formal proposal.

In reply to Re^8: threads on Windows by kennethk
in thread threads on Windows by kennethk

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