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jepri
I don't have any experience in 64 bit perl beyond "it worked for me". But then, I wasn't doing something suicidal like using threads. My statement was more based on having watched windows and "Linux" flop around on the x86 64-bit beach as they attempted to drag themselves out of the 32-bit sea. So to speak.
Linux and Perl have been 64-bit clean since before x86-64 existed, but there's no guarantees that other code on the system is clean and won't interfere in weird ways.<P>
<i>Are there any resources in particular you'd recommend discussing what to avoid in Perl on a 64-bit machine?</i><P>
Don't use source filters. Also, don't use threads. Keep away from extensions written in C, since most C programmers still can't understand why they shouldn't store pointers in INTs.<P>
More generally, (system) threads are a bad solution for most problems. If you want to download a lot of files, for instance, you'll be better served using asynchronous calls
than threads. For starters, your programs won't crash.<P>
Edit: use something like this instead: <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~rybskej/forks-0.27/lib/forks.pm">forks</a>
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