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The forks.pm module is a drop-in replacement for threads.pm. It
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has the same syntax as the threads.pm module (it even takes over
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its namespace) but has some significant differences:
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- you do _not_ need a special (threaded) version of Perl
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- it is _much_ more economic with memory usage on OS's that support COW
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- it is more efficient in the startup of threads
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- it is slightly less efficient in the stopping of threads
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- it is less efficient in inter-thread communication
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If for nothing else, it allows you to use the Perl threading model
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in non-threaded Perl builds and in older versions of Perl (5.6.0
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and higher are supported).
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