jfroebe has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,

After searching on google and amazon, I have yet to find a book written for the interpreted threading within perl 5.6+. Basically I'm looking for a book that gives examples, goes over the model in detail, etc. Something more than the 5 pages or so blurb in the general perl books.

Does anyone know of any? Wondering if I'm wasting time on searching for what doesn't (currently) exist.

yup, I know I can just read the perldoc but I'm a kind of person that likes to have an actual book... call me a tree killer for perl.

Jason L. Froebe

Team Sybase member

No one has seen what you have seen, and until that happens, we're all going to think that you're nuts. - Jack O'Neil, Stargate SG-1

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Re: books on ithreads
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Nov 10, 2004 at 17:38 UTC

    I'm pretty certain there are no books on iThreads--unless someone has just, or is just about to, release one.

    As for ithreads and 5.6.anything, I think it would be a pretty short book that simply said "Don't". That holds pretty true for anything prior to 5.8.4.

    I'm slowly building up a library of techniques for using iThreads, for my own use. I have had a crack at almost every suitable problem that crops up here and a couple of other places, and find most of them reasonably easy to program.

    The biggest problems are a lack of people using them, and a lack of good problem descriptions. The former might be alleviated by the availability of a book, but until there is a reasonably comprehensive set of problems that have been tackled and used in real-world scenarios, writing such a book would be mostly hot-air and supposition.

    Not that the latter has stopped many others from writing books in the past:) And I suppose you could always get it right in the second re-print.

    It would be nice to get some conversation time with one of the 2 or 3 guys that really understands the internals of iThreads and get some answers to some of the more esoteric questions, but none of them seems to daly hereabouts.

    Examine what is said, not who speaks.
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    "Think for yourself!" - Abigail
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      > I'm pretty certain there are no books on iThreads--unless someone has, or is just about to release one.

      I'm pretty certain there are no books on any subject unless someone has, or is just about to release them. ;-)

      Sorry... it made me laugh, and I couldn't resist sharing.

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        Corrected (I think?).

        Probably as good a reason as any, and better than most, for me to dismiss whatever, fleeting thoughts I might have had about trying to write such a book :)

        Examine what is said, not who speaks.
        "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham
        "Think for yourself!" - Abigail
        "Memory, processor, disk in that order on the hardware side. Algorithm, algorithm, algorithm on the code side." - tachyon
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Re: books on ithreads
by perrin (Chancellor) on Nov 10, 2004 at 19:57 UTC
    The best resources on threads in Perl are this site and the people on the mod_perl mailing list. Not many people have used them.
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