Re: [MacPerl] Threaded??

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 17.17 -0400 1998.08.05, Eric Schissel wrote:
>I suspect this is a really stupid question, and your forbearance is
>requested and appreciated *vbg*  What would "threaded" MacPerl be? (That
>is, what does "threaded" mean?)

Two ways to think of it, that I gather.

One, a single MacPerl program can spawn multiple threads, which is similar
in idea to forking, which MacPerl (indeed, perl on most non-Unix OSes)
cannot do.

Two, the MacPerl app itself can execute multiple simultaneous programs.
This is especially useful -- indeed, practically required -- for any
serious CGI work.  It is the reason I used to suggest Frontier to people
who were running web servers on their Macs and needed CGIs.

Hope this helps,

--
Chris Nandor          mailto:pudge@pobox.com         http://pudge.net/
%PGPKey = ('B76E72AD', [1024, '0824090B CE73CA10  1FF77F13 8180B6B6'])

***** Want to unsubscribe from this list?
***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch