[Chicago-talk] threading Question

[Zane C.B.]

On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:47:12 -0600
packet <fasteliteprogrammer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does it matter if you have 1 cpu or 4 cpu for programming threads
> in perl and why?
> 
> 
> I got 1 cpu on the laptop and 4 cpu on my desktop.Just want to know
> this been bugging me for  abit.:)

I love forking, when it comes to writing things like daemons. When it
comes to stuff like that, even on a single core system, it offers a
massive improvement.

The only issue I've ever run into, is that it is a bitch, passing
information between between each instance.
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