Re: Reading Elements of an array in Parallel

[RichardK]

Parallel::ForkManager looks like a good fit for what you want, it makes it easy to start a number of processes to work through a list.

  use Parallel::ForkManager;

  $pm = Parallel::ForkManager->new($MAX_PROCESSES);

  foreach $data (@all_data) {
    # Forks and returns the pid for the child:
    my $pid = $pm->start and next;

    ... do some work with $data in the child process ...

    $pm->finish; # Terminates the child process
  }