Re: [MacPerl] MacOS 8.5 Sherlock modules (partly-baked idea)

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 12.44 -0500 1998.10.26, Brian "L." Matthews wrote:
>Chris Nandor writes:
>|No, it is not a bad idea, except that Sherlock checks multiple sites
>|simultaneously, and MacPerl (for now) could only do one at a time.  And it
>|would be difficult (for me, anyway) to do a UI as nice as Sherlock's.  But
>|in theory, yes, this could be done (much better once MacPerl has threads).
>
>I hadn't thought of the simultaneous request bit. Does that have to be
>done with threads? A script should be able to send off multiple requests
>wait for the replies, then process them one at a time.

Yes, threads are the way to do it on a Mac.  On Unix, you can fork off more
processes.

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