C:> perl -v | head -2 | tail -1 This is perl 5, version 24, subversion 0 (v5.24.0) built for MSWin32-x64-multi-thread C:> perl -V | egrep "thread.*=" useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define C:> perl -Mthreads -le "print $threads::VERSION;" 2.07 C:> perl -Mthreads -le "async { sleep 100; } ; exit;" Perl exited with active threads: 1 running and unjoined 0 finished and unjoined 0 running and detached C:> perl -Mthreads -le "async { sleep 100; }->detach ; exit;" C:>