Re: Testing many devices - are threads the answer?

You don't say what platform but if *nix, I would go with a Parallel::ForkManager solution before I did threads.

-derby

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Re^2: Testing many devices - are threads the answer? by McDarren (Abbot) on May 12, 2009 at 14:25 UTC
Thanks for the pointer. I gave this a go, and found that implementing it into my existing code was incredibly easy - and had the desired result. Using Parallel::ForkManager with 10 "workers" reduced my total run time from ~15 minutes to just under 2 minutes. This has basically solved my problem, but I'm still curious about threads, so I plan to have a look at the example provided by BrowserUK next. Thanks again, Darren :)	[reply]

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Re^2: Testing many devices - are threads the answer?
by McDarren (Abbot) on May 12, 2009 at 14:25 UTC

I gave this a go, and found that implementing it into my existing code was incredibly easy - and had the desired result. Using Parallel::ForkManager with 10 "workers" reduced my total run time from ~15 minutes to just under 2 minutes.

This has basically solved my problem, but I'm still curious about threads, so I plan to have a look at the example provided by BrowserUK next.

Thanks again,
Darren :)

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