Provides a thread-safe queue. Any number of threads can add elements to the end of the queue or remove elements from the head.
new |
$q = new Thread::Queue
Creates a new empty queue. Returns an object representing the queue.
dequeue |
$q->dequeue
Removes and returns a scalar from the head of the queue. If the queue is empty, dequeue blocks the thread until another thread enqueue s a scalar on the queue.
dequeue_nb |
$q->dequeue_nb
Like dequeue, but returns undef if the queue is empty instead of blocking.
enqueue |
$q->enqueue list
Adds the list of scalars, list, to the end of the queue.
pending |
$q->pending
Returns the number of items remaining in the queue.
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