README for forks::BerkeleyDB

Version

0.06

This module is a drop-in replacement for threads.pm. It has the same syntax as the threads.pm module (it even takes over its namespace) but has some significant differences:

• you do not need a special (threaded) version of Perl
• it is much more economic with memory usage on OS's that support COW. Additionally, it uses local temp filesystem space for shared variable data, so memory savings are at a premium when dealing with very large shared variables
• it is more efficient in the startup of threads
• it is slightly less efficient in the stopping of threads
• it is somewhat less efficient in shared variable data operations
• it is less efficient in shared variable locking and signaling

Copyright (c) 2006-2009 Eric Rybski <rybskej@yahoo.com>. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

Required Modules:
BerkeleyDB (0.27)
Devel::Required (0.07)
forks (0.29)
Storable (any)
Tie::Restore (0.11)

The build is standard:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install