as i work on a windows/xampp system for the majority of my spam develpoment/tools i've run into the problem of threading

php

  apps for greater efficiency. the problem is forking is not possible on win32 systems (i'd love to be corrected here!) so i've started looking at other languages. so far the shortlist has been whittled down to

python

  or

perl

 .
now

perl

  seems the way to go as it has threaded support and a healthy module library a la LWParallel, mech, etc and the language is readable for me coming from a

php

  background plus i like the way you can use

perl

 2exe to make nice standalone apps.
however i'm still reading mixed reports on thread stability. Any

perl

  gurus got any thoughts on this? is the

perl

  thread implementation stable and efficient?

Hi itchy,

welcome to

Perl

 !

(Just moved your thread to

PERL

  Coding & Best Practices).

I'm running several

Perl

  scripts on my local Windows PC
without any problems. But regarding forking I can't recommend
to run

Perl

  scripts on Windows. I have checked it 2-3 years
ago and it was not stable.

Maybe it has changed in the meantime. Anyway, I'm running
my

Perl

  scripts which need forking only on

Linux

  systems.

Dirk

thanx dirk. i was more getting at the threads module in

perl

  (maybe called ithreads as well). has anyone tried this under windows. obviously i'd try it and see but this is maybe 3 weeks reading away...and i kinda need some opinions before really diving in. for starters though i'm well grounded in the

perl

  basics but even say hybriding (is that a word?lol) mechanize for thread support is a way off. need to amend the class probably from the ground up or just write my own custom class.
basically i can write spiders in both

perl

  and

php

  but they run too slow due to the page load bottleneck and my only real option is to install a nix system on one of my laptops. then i lose my windows apps...

edit: whoops sorry wrong section ,jeez gotta stop before breakfast didn't even see the discussion boards hahaha thats what the scroll bars for.

I have not used

perl

  since like 5.6
but fork is implemented in ActiveState

perl

   for windows.
M$ pay tons to activestate to make it possible

dump the fuking windows and install

linux

 .
you get a proper shell, what apps do u lose ? (unless u are talking about games, that is about the only important windows apps i know)

Unless you need the GUI, dump it man. Hell - in ANY language then you could just use poor-man's threading (exec('anexpr')  in

PHP

  and be done with it. Wouldn't have to reboot so often either...

/p