Thread::Barrier
===============

Name               DSLIP  Description                             Info
---------------    -----  --------------------------------------- -----
Thread::Barrier    bdpOp  Thread barriers for Perl                MROGASKI


Thread barriers provide a mechanism for synchronization of multiple 
threads.  All threads issuing a "wait" on the barrier will block until 
the count of waiting threads meets some threshold value.  This mechanism
proves quite useful in situations where processing progresses in stages
and completion of the current stage by all threads is the entry criteria
for the next stage.

This module only functions on Perl versions 5.8.0 and later.  And then
only when threads are enabled with -Dusethreads.  It is of no use with
any version of Perl before 5.8.0 or without threads enabled.


INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install


DEPENDENCIES

This module requires threaded Perl 5.8.0.


COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2002-2003, 2005 Mark Rogaski, mrogaski@cpan.org

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the README file distributed with 
Perl for further details.

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$Id: README,v 1.5 2005/11/01 18:32:45 wendigo Exp $

