Peter wrote: >On 02/24/2007 06:47 PM, Frank Reitzenstein wrote: > > >>I had never actually done an upgrade on Redhat until the last CD fedora >>5 - it has always been splicing and rebuilding (thanks to Interchange). >>Fedora 5 is excellent by the way. >> >>As a result of your emails I notice that I AM running Interchange with >>Perl 5.8.7 (/usr/local/bin/perl). >> >> > >5.8.7 is fine as long as it's non-threaded. If you want to run a >threaded perl then it needs to be 5.8.8. > > > >>For example www.aussievitamin.com >> >>I guess with a 2.7GHz processor and 1G RAM there could be a 30% >>performance loss. There are no noticeable problems at all. (My son in NZ >>says don't waste your time - your sites load fine). >> >> > >The 30% performance loss comes from running a threaded perl, not from an >older perl. > > > >>I have Perl 5.8.8 at /usr/bin/perl for some reason. I guess I should get >>around to replacing it with perl 5.6 and then I guess Mike's CPAN >>scripts will work with that huh? >> >> > >5.6? That's ancient. > > > >>...and I can change /usr/local/bin/perl >>to /usr/bin/perl in all the files in the /usr/lib/interchange/bin >>directory. I'm glad when my life isn't dominated by technical issues :) >> >> > >If your /usr/local/bin/perl is non-threaded then I would leave it. > >Peter > >_______________________________________________ >interchange-users mailing list >suppressed >http://www.icdevgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/interchange-users > > > Peter, So I used to be able to tell whether Perl is threaded by version as I still can with Activeperl that I use on Windows for my Tk menus. Now that we have recent Perl versions which are non threaded how can I tell if my version is or is not threaded? I'm sure it's a really dumb question. Frank. _______________________________________________ interchange-users mailing list suppressed http://www.icdevgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/interchange-users
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