#! perl -slw # This is perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi use strict; use threads; use Thread::Conveyor; my $belt = Thread::Conveyor->new( { maxboxes => 50, minboxes => 25, optimize => 'memory', # or 'cpu' }); threads->new(sub { print while defined( $_ = $belt->take ); }, { stack_size => 4096 })->detach; $belt->put( $_ ) for 1 .. 10; $belt->put( undef );