# The devel/p5-forks port

## p5-forks-0.36p0 – forks - emulate threads with fork

## Description

    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 for 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).

WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/forks/

Categories:
  devel perl5

## Library dependencies

## Build dependencies

## Run dependencies

- STEM->=0.11:devel/p5-Sys-SigAction
- STEM->=0.15:devel/p5-List-MoreUtils
- devel/p5-Acme-Damn
- devel/p5-Devel-Symdump