Perl - Threading and GetOpts

[Goatboy]

Not to suck lick blow my own horn, but I just submitted an article explaining how threading and getopts work. I tried to keep it simple yet informational, and my only hope is that it helps someone along with perl.

/me looks at Dwere134

http://www.hackthissite.org/articles/read/1089

[thetan]

There really isn't a great way to do this by default. I suppose you could write some pretty barbaric sleep()-based timing system to manage all the tasks, but that is neither elegant nor efficient.

Asynchronous event driven programming works <3

Imagine writing a GUI application where you couldn't refresh an animated object AND click a button at the same time.

Most GUI API's (IE: QT, GTK) are event driven. However, yes you're right most of them sit on a very tiny thread pool (typically 2-3 threads that are constantly re-used and repurposed because thread allocation is expensive)

You can also view javascript as a GUI centric frontend language that itself is event driven and asynchronous. However, javascript famously only uses a single thread for it's event loop

Out of browser implementations of javascript (node.js) allow you to create desktop GUI api's in pure javascript using GTK https://github.com/niklasf/node-ui-gtk/ ... counter.js.