Multi thread.

[Pimt]

Hello,

Im creating an application which retrives information from internet. What I need is several threads which retrieve information simultanious.
My question now is:
Is it best to setup the threads and feed them with information. Thus keeping the threads alive.
Or
Setup a thread with new information and let finish.
And then startup the next thread. Ofcourse about 6 to 10 simultanious.

Kind regards,
Pim

 

[MikeLacey]

Hiya Pim,

It's easier to do this with multiple processes than with threads (which is probably why we've all been hoping that someone *else* would answer your question sorry about that)

I would use fork() to start off a child process that would retrieve data into local files then, when all of the child processes had finished, they could be processed.

I've never used threads in Perl, and I don't intend to until they're stable; it's experimental at the moment. Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com
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