Re: [xml] IO callbacks are not thread-safe

[Michael Ludwig <mlu as-guides com>]

Nick Wellnhofer schrieb:
> Michael Ludwig wrote:
> > What are these input and output callbacks of libxml? Or are they not
> > part of the Perl interface, just part of the C interface?
>
> With libxml, you can register your own handlers that are called
> whenever a URL has to be loaded during processing. E.g. external
> subsets, xincludes, imported XSLT stylesheets.
>
> For the Perl bindings have a look at the XML::LibXML::InputCallback
> man page.

Thanks, Nick!

> I have no idea what the output callbacks are used for.

Maybe someone else? Multiple result documents for XSLT?

> I use [threads] to speed up processing on multi-core CPUs. You simply
> create a number of threads depending on the number of processors. Then
> you post a number of job descriptions on a shared job queue that is
> read and processed by each thread. See "man threads" and "man
> Thread::Queue" for how to do it in Perl.

threads (3perl) - Perl interpreter threads, or ithreads

Thanks. So ithreads seem to be good for something, it seems.

Michael Ludwig