Re^2: How to speed up my Html parsing program? (Concurrently run Subroutines?)

[eye]

This page contains a list of links which then need to be retrieved by the get_page_html() method and there content passed to retrieve_info();

If the get_page_html() method retrieves pages over a network (rather than from disk), there is great potential for improving performance with forking or threads. In a single process/thread, network latency is additive. With multiple processes/threads, latency costs can run concurrently.

[BobFishel]

Yes, it retrieves it over a network. I'm definitly going to look into forking, after doing some reading last night it seems this is my best bet at this point. Now I just need to figure out how to keep my variables indedpendant. I haven't dug into the code in the responses below yet but from the looks of it they seem like a great starting point!