ok, somewhere deep inside it reveals that "fork" have more to clone on windows, threads.xs is 5% simpler to initialize, and also there is some RTFS chunk of code that makes great difference between them.

good.

Still, there is one huge common in them,

I think this is larger common thing, as opposed to some implementation differences.

Actually this unfortunate design has its historical explanations - there were 5005THREADS, which were developed in pre-5.6.0 perl and were designed to be lightweight.
this stuck, fo rsome reasons, and 'ithreads' were added quickly as easier solution

And this mean - perl have not efficient threads.
You could still have usage of them to have a load on multiple CPUs, but perl is just not the right tool for the task, it is not efficient when we're talking about threads.

Do you know how this threading is done in Python and Ruby, BTW?
(I do not know, but may be you do?)

PS: I use win32 perl more often than Linux one, although both are quite often.

In reply to Re^14: threading a perl script by vkon
in thread threading a perl script by Boetsie

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