MCE version 1.000
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Many-core Engine (MCE) for Perl helps enable a new level of performance by
maximizing all available cores. One immediate benefit is that MCE does not
fork a new worker process per each element in an array. Instead, MCE follows
a bank queuing model. Imagine the line being the data and bank-tellers the
parallel workers. MCE enhances that model by adding the ability to chunk
the next n elements from the input stream to the next available worker.

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires Perl 5.8.0 or later.

   MCE supports both forking and threads.

   The use of threads in MCE requires that you include a threads module
   in your script before MCE.

      use threads;           (or)   use forks;
      use threads::shared;          use forks::shared;

      <other_perl_modules>          <other_perl_modules>

      use MCE;                      use MCE;

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

   Fcntl
   Socket
   Storable 2.04 or later
   File::Path
   Test::More 0.45 or later (for testing)

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2012 by Mario E. Roy <marioeroy AT gmail DOT com>

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.0 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

