[Israel.pm] Multi Threading exercises ideas

[Shlomi Fish]

On Wednesday 23 August 2006 08:25, Yossi.Itzkovich at ecitele.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have never written a MT code (not in Perl nor in any other language I
> work with), and I would like to start exercise.
>
> Can you give me ideas (or links to ideas) for smalll MT application to
> write  ?  I want to write small application to "feel" the MT issue
> (==problems, deadlocks etc.)
>

One good problem is a First-Come First-Served Readers/Writers Lock:

http://www.shlomifish.org/rwlock/

Others I can think of are servers (such as web-servers) powered by thread 
pools. You might also wish to look at:

http://fc-solve.berlios.de/to-do.html#multi_threading

But there are plenty of other problems.

> BTW: Any known problems with MT in perl >=5.8.4 ?
>

Well, there are two alternative thread systems in perl5:

1. perl5005threads.
2. ithreads

perl5005threads is hod you'd normally expect thread to behave. ithreads are 
threads that are not quite lightweight because they keep copies of all 
non-shared variables. And even in the variables that are declared shared, 
there are many problems. (Last time I checked splice() was not supported on 
shared arrays.)

However, perl5005threads caused a lot of implementation problems for some 
reason.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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