Thank you for your answer.

"I'm not sure why you've posted the fork code if your question is about threads? But...."

I had thought every fork was a thread.... And a call to fork() started a child process and returned the PID of that process.

I had heard fork() leakes like a sieve even in 12. so a threads version would be very helpful. However I am not proficient enough to follow your code completely. 

#! perl -slw
use strict;
use threads;

my @threads = map async( sub{
    my( $num, $sleep ) = @_;
    print "started HTTP CALL";
    print "done with HTTP CALL return results";return $num;
},

print "Done with 10 HTTP CALLS RETURN RESULTS", $_->join for @threads;

# I am assuming @threads now holds the 10 results for each child proce
+ss. Correct?

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