I respect your aversion to using timers or the fileevent/select methods of eventloop toolkits, but once you learn to use them, they allow much more flexibility in design. Those 
 
while( sleep 1){  do complex hash checking logic  }

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loops can get very cumbersome as the complexity of the hash checking increases. Timers and fileevents make things easier. Also, Glib is only a 260k download, less than most of the pictures you download now-a-days. Glib also works on Win32 and Linux type systems. Glib is the basic class of the Firefox browser out there. Are you suggesting Firefox should use while loops instead?

Maybe you just an old dog, who is averse to learning "new tricks"? :-)

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth.
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In reply to Re^3: Should I use threads? Perl/DHCP/Radius by zentara
in thread Should I use threads? Perl/DHCP/Radius by Anonymous Monk

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