Re: [MacPerl] multiple droplets

[Brian "L." Matthews <blm@halcyon.com>]

kamma@iname.com writes:
|I have written several droplets  to run in a continuous loop and send
|output to the standard out or a log file.  However it looks as if only
|one can run at a time.

Yes. All a droplet is is a package of the script and a little bit of code
that launches MacPerl if necessary and tells it to run the script. So
even if you launch n droplets, they're all actually being run by one
MacPerl.

If you really want n scripts running at a time, you could save them as
runtimes, which saves a copy of MacPerl in each. However, this means that
each script will be the size of the MacPerl application plus a little bit,
they'll each take as much memory as the MacPerl application, and they'll
each have their own STDOUT window.

Brian

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