Thanks, it was.

I can see now that Perl5's threading isn't ready for main stream. Having to copy everything is just far too much of an overhead. The idea that Perl updates the "copies" of variables whenever a thread updates a variable is far from efficient.

I don't buy Perl not being able to use references for it's data since it's done in real threading applications just fine. It looks to me that Threading in Perl was added just as a "hack job" to make shared data across "fork()"s (I do know a thread not really a fork()).

My idea wants the ability to share data across threads while maintaining somewhat of a speed benefit from multiple children. However, due to the complexity of Perl's own threads, the performance hit seems to negate the benefits of using threading in the first place.