Perl multitasking, CPAN at home
Fri May 28 10:19:01 PDT 2010
For my own reference, here are a couple things I had to find out about Perl today:
- An overview of installing Perl modules with CPAN in your home directory.
- The local::lib module mentioned in that article; probably the best way of getting it going. Looks much easier than it was a few years ago.
- David Blank-Edelman's article for ;login: magazine about Perl and spawning (PDF)
- Parallel::Forkmanager is a simple Perl module for managing spawned processes.
- Proc::Queue is another module to manage forked processes.
- POE seems to be a much more sophisticated framework.