I am looking for a module that will enable easy batching with perl
threads, somewhat like Parallel::ForkManager for forking in batches.
Does anybody know of such a module?

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Hi "Unknown User",

On Saturday 12 Mar 2011 16:27:27 Unknown User wrote:
> I am looking for a module that will enable easy batching with perl
> threads, somewhat like Parallel::ForkManager for forking in batches.
> Does anybody know of such a module?

Please see this previous thread in this list:

http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.beginners/2011/02/msg115 714.html

To sum up, while threads may often be a good idea in general (some people
happen to claim otherwise), Perl is not a very good language to use for them
and you should probably look at other languages such as C, C#/.NET, Erlang, or
possibly C/C++ (= C++ with many C primitives), Node.js, or Java or some JVM-
hosted languages such as Scala or Clojure. Alternatively, maybe try using
other forms of multi-tasking in Perl.

Note that threads suck pretty badly in all of the Perl 5/Python/Ruby/PHP/etc.
languages in part due to their design philosophy, so it's not limited to Perl.

If you do have to use threads in Perl read:

* http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=288022

* http://perldoc.perl.org/perlthrtut.html

Regards,

Shlomi Fish

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