in reply to Multiplicity - what the heck is it?
An IRC conversation with Gozer that helped me understand more about it
<phred> multiple interpreter instances in the same process - http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/intro/overview.html <gozer> phred: theory: yup, pretty much <gozer> basically wraps up all interpreter state in a single interpreter structure <gozer> (as opposed to a bazillion globals) <gozer> so you can create 2 perl interpretersi n a single process <gozer> also does make tracking down leaks and stuff easier <phred> what good are two interpreters in one process? <phred> you're saying they both would 'point' to the same data structure instead of multiple globals? <gozer> phred: nope <gozer> interp1 = new interp <gozer> interp2 = new interp <gozer> interp1.eval("use DBI 1.99;") <phred> whoa nice <gozer> interp2.eval("use DBI 1.23;") <gozer> (all pseudo code) <phred> that would be a hosting super feature <gozer> that is all interpreter pools are implemented in threaded mpms <gozer> phred: yup <gozer> and you can do things like <gozer> interp3 = interp2.clone() <phred> thanks for the explanation
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