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how to fix ithreads (Score:1)
ithreads have two problems:
1. When you spawn a thread, it copies the whole environment from the parent thread, variables and code. This results in poor performance when a lot of libraries are loaded.
2. You can't pass a file descriptor from one thread to the other. So you can't create a network server that spawns a thread for each client.
This makes perl one of the only scripting language you can't use to build a multi-threaded network server, without using fancy stuff like Coro, AnyEvent or POE. Those are gr
Re:how to fix ithreads (Score:1)
The worst part of this is not just the poor performance but its unpredictability and that the effect is not local but global.
For instance, to implement a CPAN module doing something specific (as downloading a bunch of files from the Internet in parallel) that you want to be usable from any script, if the module were launching, say, 10 threads, that would mean increasing x10 the memory footprint of the whole script.
So, using threads have uncontrolled side effects that would break the module encapsulation in a big way.
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