Windows 7, whatever the latest Strawberry perl is.

The reason I didn't do join was because I wasn't returning anything and it behaved in a non-parallel manner since I had to wait for the joined thread to return before I could start another thread. Unless I of course did something very wrong. My goal was parallelization and so far so good. I just attempted 450 files with 450 threads trying to tax my work computer. Maybe I can request an SSD at work since I think syscalls for read/write is what is the slowest part of my program now.

I will however look into the more modern code, see how it behaves