On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:34:56 -0400 "Henry Hartley" <suppressed> wrote: > suppressed wrote: > >> > >> Am 22.06.2006 um 16:25 schrieb Henry Hartley: > >> > So, what is the status with Interchange and threaded Perl? Is > >> > non-threaded perl still required? > >> > >> as far as I know during the installation your were asked if you > >> want to install interchange with threaded enabled. > >> > >> But this was discussed not so long ago. > > Sorry, I searched back as far as last November but didn't see it > mentioned. If you can point to a thread, that would be helpful. > The discussion still seems to imply that threaded perl causes > problems so perhaps it's worth the effort in any case. Thanks > for the reply. Google revealed this link: http://www.icdevgroup.org/pipermail/interchange-users/2005-June/043257.html Here's the [snip] with Mike's reply at the bottom: [snip] > > > Perl 5.8.7 is out, and one change mentioned in perldelta stands out: > > > > -- Using closures with ithreads could cause perl to crash. This was > > due to failure to correctly lock internal OP structures, and has > > been fixed. > > > > Interchange uses a lot of closures (subroutines embedded with lexical > > data). > > So does this mean threaded Perl might be ok to use with IC now? It might -- it runs fine as far as I can tell. But I don't know why anyone would want to, as you pay a 15-30% speed penalty. [/snip] _______________________________________________ interchange-users mailing list suppressed http://www.icdevgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/interchange-users
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