Hi,
I've built a web robot using the RobotUA module from CPAN - it works pretty well, although i've had a few problems like it just waiting for a request for ages and ages without timing out, but anyway that's not my question.

The thing is it works sequentially, and that's a bit slow really, I can only visit about a few hundred URLs an hour. I've heard about a Parallel version of the RobotUA module, and I was wondering if anyone could tell me anything about it? i.e. will it be much better? what kind of performance increase will I see? will it be worth the effort? etc.

Also, i'm using Activestate Perl on Windows ME, so I normally use their Perl Package Manager program to install modules, except it's not working at the moment. So can I just get the modules from CPAN, if so how can I install them in my version of Perl?

Thanks,
Tom

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