README for forks::BerkeleyDB Version: 0.05 This 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. Additionally, it uses local temp filesystem space for shared variable data, so memory savings are at a premium when dealing with very large shared variables - it is more efficient in the startup of threads - it is slightly less efficient in the stopping of threads - it is slightly less efficient in shared variable data operations - it is less efficient in shared variable locking and signaling Copyright (c) 2006 Eric Rybski . All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Required Modules: BerkeleyDB (0.27) Devel::Required (0.07) forks (0.18) Storable (any) Tie::Restore (0.11) The build is standard: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install