in reply to To thread or not to thread

Threads are unsafe in perl right now regardless of what you do. IThreads may be safe in 5.8.0. (Probably will be, but there's always the possibility something niggly gets through)

If you're really careful, 5.005-style threads are safer than IThreads (what Windows uses to fork) through 5.6.1, but only because you can protect yourself better from the places where you can core perl.

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Re: Re: To thread or not to thread
by Matts (Deacon) on May 30, 2002 at 15:41 UTC
    Also note that while ithreads in 5.8.0 may well be thread safe, that doesn't mean modules running under 5.8.0 will be. Particularly anything that uses XS. Some stuff will be fine, no doubt, but others will need major overhauls.
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