Threading a for loop in Perl?

[bcarroll]

Is it possible to use multiple threads when parsing a for, foreach, etc... loop in Perl? I believe ActivePerl is not multi-threaded, but I have been able to implement threading using some external modules with success. I would like to figure out how to multi-thread a loop to make it execute faster.

Basically what I am doing is...
foreach $stuff (@array_of_stuff){
exececute_subroutine($stuff);
}

The issue is that the exececute_subroutine() subroutine can take several seconds to complete which makes the overall script execution take a long time.