Yeah, I would never use threads for something this simple, I was just demonstrating what I perceived to be a readability improvement between threads and MCE with that example since it was quick to work up.

Since it is just a wrapper for threads, does it make sense to use it in when possible? Is there any reason not to use it IF I am in a situation where I can install modules? (which I should be since 99% of the time I'm running code on my lab machines). I'm starting to think that there isn't a downside except that MCE is not part of a standard Perl install but there aren't many code examples of MCE in the wild so it's hard to tell.

In reply to Re^4: Wanting some clarification / opinions on MCE vs Threads by jmmitc06
in thread Wanting some clarification / opinions on MCE vs Threads by jmmitc06

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