[Buffalo-pm] Multi-Threaded Perl...

[DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI]

Mongers,

I am in the planning stages of writing a program that will make queries
to a device (via SNMP), wait for a response, then do something with the
information received (namely store it into a database), and move on to
the next device in the list. Obviously, when having to do this thousands
of times per a 5 minute time frame, a single threaded program can be
restricted by the blocking for the I/O Requests. I figured that in order
to maximize the speed, it would need to be multithreaded. 

My real question is whether anyone has written any multithreaded Perl
programs, along with the pluses and minuses or using Perl for
multithreading. Hopefully I won't have to use C or C++, in which case,
I'd probably rather bang my head against the wall. Although, having a
high quality UB Computer Science education, it wouldn't be impossible
;-) 

Any help or insight would be great! Thanks.

-Dan