Perl: notes on threads

Threads in Perl have decent support; Wx in Perl just uses the Perl variety without using much of the wxWidgets machinery, as far as I can tell. (Caveat: I don't know squat about threads except for theory; I took the right classes in grad school, but this is another thing I've never felt the need to deal with in real life. Yet.)

First, threads in Wx. Note that this references the modules threads and threads::shared. Finally, the perlthrtut is a recommended read.

My thinking is leaning towards providing threads only in the context of event handlers. Some event handlers could be marked as explicitly threaded, and those would spawn a new thread when fired. Wx methods would then be used for synchronization under Wx; in the general case, we'd use thread->join.