in reply to Re^2: Parallel Processing
in thread Parallel Processing

No need for START. This will do the trick on Windows: 

for (1..5) {
  system(1, "DoThis.exe");
}

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See perlport.

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Re^4: Parallel Processing
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 07, 2010 at 17:11 UTC

    meh. 

    for (1..5) {
   system('start DoThis.exe');
}

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    vs 

    my @pids;
for (1..5) {
   push @pids, system(1, "DoThis.exe");
}

waitpid($_, 0) for @pids;

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    Maybe zombies don't matter and you can reduce the latter to something akin to the former, but we haven't been told that.

    Then again, I would want to know if the children died, and using start hides that data.

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