#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings;; use Forking::Amazing; use Data::Dump 'dd'; use Time::HiRes qw(time); my $groupsize = 1000; my @rawids = 'job0001' .. 'job9999'; my @ids; push @ids, [ splice @rawids, 0, $groupsize ] while @rawids; my @answers; my $start = time; Forking::Amazing::run 20, sub { [ map +{id => $_, pid => $$, time => time - $start}, @{+shift} ] }, sub { push @answers, @{+pop} }, @ids; my $end = time - $start; dd \@answers; print "forking time $end\n";