README for forks Version: 0.29 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 , 2002-2004 Elizabeth Mattijsen . 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: Attribute::Handlers (any) Devel::Required (0.07) 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