Source: libforks-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: gregor herrmann , Salvatore Bonaccorso Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), libacme-damn-perl, liblist-moreutils-perl, libsys-sigaction-perl, perl-xs-dev, perl:native Standards-Version: 3.9.5 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libforks-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libforks-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/forks Package: libforks-perl Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, libacme-damn-perl, liblist-moreutils-perl, libsys-sigaction-perl Description: Perl module to emulate threads with fork The forks.pm module is a drop-in replacement for threads.pm. It has the same syntax as the threads.pm module (it even takes over its namespace) but has some significant differences: . - you do _not_ need a special (threaded) version of Perl - it is _much_ more economic with memory usage on OS's that support COW - it is more efficient in the startup of threads - it is slightly less efficient in the stopping of threads - it is less efficient in inter-thread communication . If nothing else, it allows you to use the Perl threading model in non-threaded Perl builds and in older versions of Perl (5.6.0 and higher are supported).