Re: How does POE speed up operation in reality?

Quoting Roy M. ([email protected]):
> 
> So far the POE::FTP components only allow me to connect to one ftp
> server at a time, how can I get the same/similar speed as 8 concurrent
> process?).
> 
> In fact, this is a quite common multiple-producer and

As per usual in these cases, there is a slight misunderstanding going
on, where Rocco knows too much about POE to figure out what elementary
knowledge you are missing. 

It's pretty simple POE, once you get your head around that it is
cooperative multitasking of bundles of short events. So,
POE::Component::FTP is one such bundle. Now, this bundle of events you
can kick off multiple times, it will cooperate with all the other
instances. As long as they are not CPU bound, and network task seldomly
are, they will happily retrieve all network data "concurrently". 

So, just set up the component for each server, call poekernel->run and
sit back. If you need to, then you can throttle back, having only 10 or
15 servers connected at the same time, adding one more for each finished
transfer.

Cheers,
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