[Chicago-talk] Sharing data between processes

[Steven Lembark]

> What ways can I share an object (or complex data structure) between
> processes?  I know I can share simple structures (arrays, hashes, scalars)
> between threads, but I was trying to avoid threads.

(1) Shared memory (on same box).
(2) Message passing (multiple boxes).

In both cases you can use Data::Dumper or Storable (built
into the shared memory modue methinks) to pass the structure
values around between the tasks.

In most cases you're better off with some mechanism for
sending the data values across and having the remote side
populate an object for you with the values.


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