How to Install and Uninstall libthread-tie-perl Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "libthread-tie-perl" package

Learn how to install libthread-tie-perl on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libthread-tie-perl
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libthread-tie-perl" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall libthread-tie-perl on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libthread-tie-perl
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libthread-tie-perl package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: libthread-tie-perl
Priority: optional
Section: universe/perl
Installed-Size: 106
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Perl Group
Architecture: all
Version: 0.13-1
Depends: perl, libload-perl, libthread-serialize-perl
Filename: pool/universe/libt/libthread-tie-perl/libthread-tie-perl_0.13-1_all.deb
Size: 29402
MD5sum: 1c4ba7f23305f2cb6b58dffbb53053c4
SHA1: d16459241079b2c4a58fecf69189ad2adbb5eb6e
SHA256: 21e61b8289644635f997aec55d3a41f2f6a0e5bc94cd0daed7ce7e445804e08d
Description-en: alternative separate thread implementation of shared variables
The standard shared variable scheme used by Perl, is based on tie-ing the
variable to some very special dark magic. This dark magic ensures that shared
variables, which are copied just as any other variable when a thread is
started, update values in all of the threads where they exist as soon as the
value of a shared variable is changed.
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The Thread::Tie module is a proof-of-concept implementation of another approach
to shared variables. Instead of having shared variables exist in all the
threads from which they are accessible, shared variable exist as "normal",
unshared variables in a separate thread. Only a tied object exists in each
thread from which the shared variable is accessible.
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Through the use of a client-server model, any thread can fetch and/or update
variables living in that thread. This client-server functionality is hidden
under the hood of tie(). So you could say that one dark magic (the current
shared variables implementation) is replaced by another dark magic.
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The Thread::Tie approach has the following advantages:
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* Memory usage - This implementation circumvents the memory leak that
currently (threads::shared version 0.90) plagues any shared array or shared
hash access.
* Tieing shared variables - Because the current implementation uses tie-ing,
you can not tie a shared variable. The same applies for this implementation
you might say. However, it is possible to specify a non-standard tie
implementation for use within the thread. So with this implementation you
can tie() a shared variable. So you could tie a shared hash to a DBM file à
la dbmopen() with this module.
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Of course there are disadvantages to this approach:
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* Pure Perl implementation - This module is currently a pure Perl
implementation. This is ok for a proof of concept, but may need re-
implementation in pure XS or in Inline::C for production use.
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* Tradeoff between cpu and memory - This implementation currently uses (much)
more cpu than the standard shared variables implementation. Whether this
would still be true when re-implemented in XS or Inline::C, remains to be
seen.
Description-md5: 6950942feac3c6f092950de961ead35b
Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Thread-Tie
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu