IPC::Shareable allows you to tie a variable to shared memory making it easy to share the contents of that variable with other Perl processes. Currently either scalars or hashes can be tied; tying of arrays remains a work in progress. However, the variable being tied may contain arbitrarily complex data structures - including references to arrays, hashes of hashes, etc. See the "REFERENCES" entry in this man page below for more information. WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/IPC-Shareable/