Before you start using this in production you may want to glance at this email for a few useful tips and tricks. There are a few other discussions of this on p5p. But with the current state of Perl I have to say that is certainly the best way to do multi-threaded stuff with Perl.

Oh, and Sarathy might like hearing about whatever you are doing, as he said he likes knowing that he isn't the only person doing this kind of stuff. :-)