README for forks

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 less efficient in the stopping of threads
- it is less efficient in inter-thread communication

If for nothing else, it allows you to test out the Perl threading model,
even in older versions of Perl (5.6.0 and higher are supported)

Copyright (c)
2005-2006 Eric Rybski <[email protected]>,
2002-2004 Elizabeth Mattijsen <[email protected]>.
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:
Devel::Required (any)
IO::Socket (1.18)
reaper (0.03)
Scalar::Util (1.01)
Storable (any)

The build is standard:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

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