README for Thread::Pool

Create a group of threads to perform similar jobs, without having to start and stop a thread for each job. It is intended to be used in situations where the completion of similar jobs (e.g. fetching URL's or resolving reverse DNS of IP-numbers) may take an indeterminate amount of time. Using a pool of threads, these jobs can be executed more or less simultaneously, causing the wallclock time of an application to be shortened.

*** A note of CAUTION ***

This module only functions on Perl versions 5.8.0-RC3 and later. And then only when threads are enabled with -Dusethreads. It is of no use with any version of Perl before 5.8.0-RC3 or without threads enabled.

Copyright (c) 2002, 2003, 2010 Elizabeth Mattijsen <liz@dijkmat.nl>. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

Version

0.33

Required Modules:
Thread::Conveyor (0.15)
Thread::Conveyor::Monitored (0.11)

The build is standard:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install