README for forks

Version

0.34

The forks.pm 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
• it is more efficient in the startup of threads
• it is slightly less efficient in the stopping of threads
• it is less efficient in inter-thread communication

If for nothing else, it allows you to use the Perl threading model in non-threaded Perl builds and in older versions of Perl (5.6.0 and higher are supported).

Copyright (c)
2005-2008 Eric Rybski <rybskej@yahoo.com>, 2002-2004 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.

Required Modules:
Acme::Damn (any)
Attribute::Handlers (any)
Devel::Symdump (any)
File::Spec (any)
if (any)
IO::Socket (1.18)
List::MoreUtils (0.15)
Scalar::Util (1.11)
Storable (any)
Sys::SigAction (0.11)
Test::More (any)
Time::HiRes (any)

The build is standard:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install