[ic] Threaded perl (re: debian bug #203579)

[Karl Schmidt]

Mike Heins wrote:
>
> 
> You have been talking like you think C is easier than Perl to do thread-
> safe code for -- in fact it is much, much harder because there are so
> many different data types which require different types of pre-allocation.
> All it takes is a referencing a bad pointer and boom, you are dead.
>
I was thinking it would give you a way to avoid the threads issue,But:

  -- "export MINIVEND_FORCE_THREADS=1"

should do the same thing and is something that the interchange package could 
install and avoid the issue of having to build a special perl (and the issue 
comming up on this mailing list for the time being). Is there still a reason to 
build a special perl to avoid threads instead of just using the .bash enviorment 
variable?

> I will tell you what I will do -- I will put up a machine running
> Fedora Core 3 and it's threaded Perl 5.8.5 (latest Interchange from
> nightly build, MySQL 4.1.9, all latest modules from CPAN). It is at:
> 
> 	http://art.perusion.com/
> 

Thanks - sorry if I've been a pain - but this issue was like a thread hanging 
out of a sweater - I had to pull it to see where it led to. Anyone else who 
wants to know can now look at this thread and see the dead horse.





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