[ic] Perl and Threading
Kevin Walsh
kevin at cursor.biz
Thu Jun 22 20:16:01 EDT 2006
"Henry Hartley" <henryhartley at westat.com> wrote:
> The benefits to using the default Perl, while also modest, are that a
> machine can be set up and maintained that much more easily. Either way,
> it's not going to be a deal breaker. In my opinion, having the choice
> is a Good Thing (TM). If I spent the time to get used to Gentoo, it
> would probably be worth the effort but I've been doing things "The Red
> Hat Way" for so long, it's hard to switch.
>
All of my machines run Gentoo. Gentoo is one of the only major distros
that supplies an unthreaded Perl unless you instruct it otherwise. You
get a lot of control over the way things are built and installed with
Gentoo.
Ok, ok. I'll stop banging that drum now. :-)
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