I think that I have read enough about threads in general and in specific to perl also
I wanted to try threads now for a load testing situation
my program has to read data some set of files and pump that to the connected clients(socket). Basically a simulator program.
but the condition is, reading from the file and pump into client has to be completely asynchronous and have to run in parallel.(let me give an example)
I thought of using fork. but in case I have 100 files, I must have to fork 100 times, where one process reads one file at a time and pumping data to a single(same) client. When the second client connects it would be a mass fork of again 100 processes.
I wish to use threads for this purpose (boss/worker) model, but since it uses COW method I am just reluctant to use(IMO).
I just read about coro module, which gives this parallel running mechanism and shared address space.
I need your guidance here, can I use coro for the above purpose, or any other such module available; which is almost similar to pthreads(POSIX threads)?, if available please give me directions.
Vivek
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