SEM Development

I’m not sure about anyone else but I hate using the raw fork() command in Perl. It may just be a psychological thing but even in programs I know will run well with good sychronization, I alway harbor a deep fear that the parent will start spawning zombie processes like an undead rabbit. Up until now, I’ve had to deal with that fear in my campaign updating processes. I fork both Google and YSM updates and it saves a ton of time.

Today, however, I was directed toward LWP::Parallel. It allows you to run HTTP calls in parallel. There’s also an LWP::Parallel::UserAgent. This is perfect. I currently inherit the LWP::UserAgent module and overload the request methods for both Google and YSM. Then I just use these modules as I would LWP::UserAgent. Now I’m going to add some logic to take advantage of this parallelization. I’ll keep you apprised of the details.