[TriLUG] Perl and SMP

[Andrew C. Oliver]

Being a big dumb person...is there any technology that uses multiple 
processors without forking into processes or launching threads?

-Andy

Andrew Perrin wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Michael Tharp wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> That's what I figured, thanks.
> 
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