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Often in program logic, multiple different steps need to be taken that
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are independent of each other, but their total result is needed before
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the next step can be taken. In synchronous code, the usual approach is
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to perform them sequentially.
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An asynchronous or event-based program could do this, but if each step
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involves some I/O idle time, better overall performance can often be
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gained by running the steps in parallel. Async::MergePoint object can
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then be used to wait for all of the steps to complete, before passing
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the combined result of each step on to the next stage.
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This module was originally part of the IO::Async distribution, but was
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removed under the inspiration of Pedro Melo's Async::Hooks distribution,
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because it does not itself contain anything I/O-specific.
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WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Async-MergePoint/
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