Thanks Kent for the Quick reply. I need to maintain a code for performance testing which is fully written using Threads and I have no clue of the concepts so I wanted some stuffs for it.
-Akshay On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Kent Fredric <kentfred...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7 July 2015 at 15:57, Akshay Mohit <akshaymohit2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am not so experienced in Perl and got a task to do in Threads. > > > The first question you have to ask is "Why do you need threads". What > are you doing? > > Many people go "I need some sort of parallel process" and go "that > needs threads!". > > But that is not so frequently true. > > If you just need two independent processes starting from one, then > forks is all you need. > > If you're fine with having an IPC channel between processes, then > forks might do the trick. > > If you just need to have some sort of IO operation system where > interacting with external services doesn't "block" the execution of > the perl program, then you don't need threads for that either, you > need Async IO. > > > using literal interpreter threads themselves is officially > discouraged. ( See perldoc threads ) > > > But knowing exactly which solution you need and what tools you will > need to do it depends entirely on what exactly you wish to do. So a > lot more detail is required here to give a definitive answer. > > > -- > Kent > > KENTNL - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL >
