I distinctly remember reading during the installation that threads should still not be used because they are very experimental. Thus, since the machine that this Perl was being installed on is well, *very* important, I didn't put the option in to use threads. Now, I am not sure if this is the machine he is trying to use. So, the second part of that question is does threading have to be included during the install in order for Perl to do threading properly? If not, can real threading still be done? I believe there is a module you can still use (via the older method that you could use pre 5.8, right)?

Thanks! This will clear up some questions I had in this area too.

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- Jim
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There is another place that provides useful information about Perl threads. Checkout the document for Thread module, it talks about a bit history, and more importantly, what you want to know about installation.

I copy and paste a little piece of it:

“Neither model is configured by default into Perl (except, as mentioned above, in Win32 ithreads are always available.) You can see your Perl's threading configuration by running perl -V and looking for the use...threads variables, or inside script by use Config; and testing for $Config{use5005threads} and $Config{useithreads}.”

And made up a three-line to do what they said:

use Config;
print "use 5005 threads\n" if $Config{use5005threads};
print "use ithreads\n" if $Config{useithreads};
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Hope this helps.