I'm a thread newbie on Windows/ActiveState and am just trying to figure out how to approach this whole mess, trying to glean knowledge from the masters.

Perlthrtut says fork is dangerous, use threads.

I think this is controversial. I also think this has been discussed before.

Can someone point me to where I can decide whether to do my multithreaded stuff using fork or thread, in a windows context?

UPDATE: Search on fork thread brings some good results, I know I know, but maybe *too* much. If someone could just tell me what to read based on personal experience I'd be grateful. Or maybe I'll just do a "survey of fork versus thread" like I did for the morass of perl html templating systems a few days ago...

This merlyn post seems pretty good forking paralell link checker...