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p5-Proc-Queue-1.23p1

limits the number of forked concurrent processes

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Description

Proc::Queue limits the number of forked processes that can be running concurrently. This module lets you parallelise a perl program using the fork, exit, wait and waitpid calls as usual but without taking care of creating too many processes and overloading the machine.

Package information

Ports path
sysutils/p5-Proc-Queue
Package architecture
*
Maintainer
Okan Demirmen <okan@openbsd.org>
Categories
sysutils, perl5
Available flavors
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