Re: Possible problems of using perl with threads support

"My question is if using threaded perl everywhere would cause problems with code that has never been involved with threads or ever cared about threads."

As far as I know, code that doesn't involve threads should run the same whether thread support is compiled or not.

I have compiled my last 3 or 4 Perls with "-Dusethreads". Code written before that still runs as before. I don't see anything different from what I'd expect with new code that doesn't involve threads.

-- Ken

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Re^2: Possible problems of using perl with threads support by Anonymous Monk on Oct 04, 2013 at 14:49 UTC
Thank you and another one. I did stumble on the problem that multitude of Module::Build tests fail after having built perl 5.16.3 with threads (along with some tests of porting/checkcase.t & porting/podcheck.t). OTOH, all of the tests pass when unthreaded perl is built. Off to file bug report ...	[reply]
Re^3: Possible problems of using perl with threads support by Anonymous Monk on Oct 05, 2013 at 22:25 UTC
Test failures were due to reference to path of perl 5.16 sans thread. All the tests passed of perl 5.16.3 compiled with thread support after removing that path reference.	[reply]