[TriLUG] Perl and SMP
Michael Tharp
gxti at partiallystapled.com
Mon Jun 4 14:54:15 EDT 2007
Andrew Perrin wrote:
> I fear I know the answer to this already, but...
>
> is there any way to get perl to use the multiple processors on an SMP
> machine (running linux, of course), short of fork()ing distinct processes?
> I've got a text processing program chugging along on one processor with
> three more sitting there idle, and it would be nice to see it Just Work
> (tm) by using all four. But it's not worth rewriting the program to fork
> into separate threads.
>
You've already exhausted your only two choices: either spawn threads
(Perl threading), or spawn processes (fork). You can't make a single
thread use more than one processor.
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