[Phoenix-pm] Perl threads?

[Bill Nash]

Please don't specifically address me when considering your boners. Thanks. 
=)

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Scott Walters wrote:

> Andrew,
>
> Ha! I didn't think about that. Actually, it's missing the =cut's before the
> code -- the code are formatted as examples in the POD, not as code with
> POD mixed in. But I shouldda!
>
> Actually, the POD doesn't have the fixes made in the review copy stages,
> so I'm loathe to pass it out. There were some real boners in there.
> Actually, there are some real boners in the final copy, too. But, for
> what it's worth (addressing billn here), APress does sell pdfs online.
> Protected, of course. Hey, anyone have a copy of that Ecolmsoft program
> that decrypts pdfs?
>
> -scott
>
> On  0, Michael Friedman <friedman at highwire.stanford.edu> wrote:
>> So, assuming the examples are regular perl inside the POD, does the
>> book manuscript compile and run? And is the final output "Just
>> Another Perl Hacker"? :-)
>>
>> -- Mike
>>
>> On Jan 26, 2006, at 12:19 PM, Scott Walters wrote:
>>
>>> Erm, yes, perldoc, by special request. I actually wrote it in perldoc
>>> format and wrote a script to convert it to RTF. Me: "Do I *have* to
>>> use Microsoft Word?" APress: "Yes" (half way through the process)
>>> Me: "Surprise! I'm not using Microsoft Word!" APress: "Uh, okay, that
>>> would explain why bullet lists look funny" Me: "Yeah, I'm not sure
>>> what's up with that..."
>>>
>>> -scott
>>>
>>> On  0, Bill Nash <billn at odyssey.billn.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Scott Walters wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> P.S.: check out forks.pm -- it's an implemention of the thread API,
>>>>> so Thread::Queue etc all work, but build on top of fork and IPC.
>>>>> If you need threads because of CPU bound tasks but there isn't
>>>>> too much variable sharing and locking, I'd go this route.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the pointer, doing some light reading now.
>>>>
>>>>> P.P.S.:
>>>>>
>>>>> Buy my damned book, damnit.
>>>>
>>>> Does it come in man page or perldoc form? =D
>>>>
>>>> - billn
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