Re^2: Module for transparently forking a sub?

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Basically, I don't know much about threads. My hazy impression of threads is that they offer little over forking and that it's hard to share a complex data structure with them. If that's not true, maybe using threads would make this all trivial, and I should just learn that.

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Re^3: Module for transparently forking a sub? by Corion (Patriarch) on Feb 13, 2009 at 16:54 UTC
The sharing problems only arise if you actually try to use the same data structure concurrently from two or more threads. If you simply pass off parameters to a subroutine, or to a worker thread using Thread::Queue, you don't have much of a problem. And returning the information (say, again, via a queue) is easy too.	[reply]

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