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Package: libforks-perl (0.33-1 and others)

forks - 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).

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Architecture Version Package Size Installed Size Files
alpha 0.33-1 116.5 kB444 kB [list of files]
amd64 0.33-1 114.0 kB424 kB [list of files]
armel 0.33-1 114.3 kB420 kB [list of files]
hppa 0.33-1 116.7 kB436 kB [list of files]
hurd-i386 0.33-1 115.0 kB424 kB [list of files]
i386 0.33-1 115.0 kB424 kB [list of files]
ia64 0.33-1 120.6 kB472 kB [list of files]
kfreebsd-amd64 0.33-1 115.3 kB358 kB [list of files]
kfreebsd-i386 0.33-1 115.0 kB358 kB [list of files]
m68k (unofficial port) 0.30-1 103.6 kB388 kB [list of files]
mips 0.33-1 111.4 kB440 kB [list of files]
mipsel 0.33-1 111.4 kB440 kB [list of files]
powerpc 0.33-1 117.1 kB428 kB [list of files]
s390 0.33-1 113.9 kB428 kB [list of files]
sparc 0.33-1 114.4 kB424 kB [list of files]