Any reason not to split perl filtering?

[Greg Andruk]

On Dec 2, 2003, at 2:51 AM, bill davidsen wrote:

> Other news programs do this, but I was actually going to go pthreads. 
> As
> long as I use a lock to keep from running more than one at a time and
> exploring how thread-safe the perl stuff might be, I think I can do 
> what
> I need.

Maybe I'm missing something, but unless the filter is spending a lot of 
time counting things between articles, isn't this still going to end up 
running pretty much sequentially?