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Also spreadsheet::WriteExcel doesn't use Win32::OLE

It simply creates a binary file in the excel format.
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Re^9: How to speed up my Html parsing program? (Concurrently run Subroutines?)
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 08, 2009 at 14:58 UTC
    Also spreadsheet::WriteExcel doesn't use Win32::OLE. It simply creates a binary file in the excel format.

    Ah! I wish you'd mentioned that before I just typed up a reply to your previous post! No matter.

    In that case, you might get away with writing the info from multiple threads. Just be sure to create a semaphore and use locking, to ensure that you don't get the writes from multiple threads interleaving.

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