[Phoenix-pm] Perl threads?

[Michael Friedman]

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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