MCE::Ch...utexFast(3)

💖 NAME 💖

MCE::Channel::MutexFast — a fast channel for producer(s) and many consumers ✨

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🌸 VERSION 🌸

This doc describes MCE::Channel::MutexFast version 1.902, bestie 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so picture this: a channel class that gives you queue-like and two-way communication for processes and threads 🫶 All the locking? Handled for you using MCE::Mutex. No manual mutex wrangling, we love to see it.

This one is basically MCE::Channel::Mutex's cooler sibling, but optimized for non-Unicode strings only 💛 The main glow-up difference: this module has no freeze-thaw serialization. Which means non-string arguments get stringified — yes, numbers and undef too, they're getting dragged into string form, no cap 🙈

The API is described over in MCE::Channel, with the sole difference being that send and send2 handle one argument. That's it, that's the whole tea ☕

Current module available since MCE 1.877 👑

✨ new ✨

use MCE::Channel;

# The default is tuned for one producer and many consumers.
my $chnl_a = MCE::Channel->new( impl => 'MutexFast' );

# Specify the 'mp' option for safe use by two or more producers
# sending or receiving on the left side of the channel (i.e.
# ->enqueue/->send or ->recv2/->recv2_nb).

my $chnl_b = MCE::Channel->new( impl => 'MutexFast', mp => 1 );

Bestie listen — the default is tuned for one producer and many consumers. If you've got two or more producers sending or receiving on the left side of the channel (that's ->enqueue/->send or ->recv2/->recv2_nb), you need to pass mp => 1 for safe use. Don't skip it, fr fr 💀

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🎀 QUEUE-LIKE BEHAVIOR 🎀

The classic queue vibes, main character energy:

• enqueue
• dequeue
• dequeue_nb
• end

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🌈 TWO-WAY IPC - PRODUCER TO CONSUMER 🌈

Producer yaps, consumer listens 💬:

• send
• recv
• recv_nb

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🍓 TWO-WAY IPC - CONSUMER TO PRODUCER 🍓

And now the consumer talks back, iconic behavior honestly:

• send2
• recv2
• recv2_nb

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Mario E. Roy, <marioeroy AT gmail DOT com> 💜

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That's the whole page, bestie — you ate that 💅✨ This doc came from the User Contributed Perl Documentation pages, perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-09-10, filed under MCE::Ch...utexFast(3). Go forth and channel your little heart out 🦋💖