my everyday programming indeed mostly text processing - just enough for single-threaded perl.
This is not simply 'wc' or grep like you said, but some text transforms, with either XML modules, or somehting like that
good enough for single-threaded perl

Actually I do not agree with your point, that I will have much benefit from threaded perl on multicore for complicated tasks.
The great drawback of perl threads - they are heavy - and also unstable - will make me find other solution.
Increasing CPU power is not the way to go.
Most probably I will use number-crunching libraries from perl (lapack or maybe specialized library).

Perl has owervelming strength in text processing, GUI, etc, its compact and nice, plus we have CPAN - that's brilliant.
But using it for calculation-intensive task is just wrong.
and then - when program speed is not enough - increasing number of CPUs is even worse :)

addition: we have a fresh fork-related bug for windows perl today - http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=89142 - at least Active Perl 5.12.1 and 5.10.0 do crash on that simple program.
threads are just not stable enough.

PS do 128-core processor exist? :o :o

In reply to Re^4: threading a perl script by vkon
in thread threading a perl script by Boetsie

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