As MSI is greatly hampered by administrative restrictions (like disallowing installations into a custom directory, if at all), it would be great if you kept simple
Strawberry Perl also is available as a
You are aware that Strawberry Perl is available in
Do we care about Perl 5, or are all eyes on Rakudo?
I care only for Perl5, and most of what I have to say about Perl6, or Rakudo, is not welcomed by the much vocal Perl6 groupies, hence I usually stay quiet when they blog about it. But then again, it feels like I am lightyears away from them anyway, with my requirements for stability and reliability, and with my core software upgrade cycles anyway, so the only thing Perl5 and Perl6 have in common is the prefix of four letters to their name.
Of course, by making coroutines actually execute in parallel, you give up the one thing that Coro provides over threads - you invite back in the daemons of locking and deadlocks.
C:\Projekte\App-CPANr>perl -Mthreads -e "open my $fh, '<', '/boot.ini'; for (async { print for <$fh>}, async{sleep 10}) { $_->join; }"
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[opera ting systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional"
/fastdetect/NoExecute=OptIn
If you want to pass non-trivial data around between multiple threads of execution, (i)threads are a far more convenient solution than implementing your own marshalling/serialization code and using fork().
