Thanks in advance for looking.

I took a look back through earlier questions and saw some helpful results but some of them were older and some didn't quite match my use case. I am writing a Perl module for a piece of software called OpenSIPs (a SIP server), the module itself does some message de-construction and re-construction that's not easy to do in the OpenSIPs config file itself. I have also been extended it to logging certain messages and statistics and right now my solution for that is Redis PUB/SUB. This is working fine but it is adding some latency that is not really necessary considering it is a non-essential function of the SIP transaction.

What I would like to do is, rather than wait for the Redis transaction to complete (sometimes in the range of 20-30 ms depending on where the Redis server is), just run the Redis PUB/SUB command asynchronously and not worry about the reply or even wait to get the acknowledgment in my main script. I've seen a few modules mentioned in earlier conversations here: threads, AnyEvent, Async, etc and also some non modular solutions like backticks, etc. What I'm looking for is the simplest, most lightweight way to call a Perl subroutine (passing it some info -- a JSON encoded string) and not worry about the response or whether it is successful. I'd appreciate any advice anyone is willing to give.

Thanks!

In reply to Advice: Async Options for fire-and-forget subroutine by mwb613

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