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You can also use 'perl -V' to find out if threads are built in..

My 5.6.1 on Linux says:
usethreads=define use5005threads=define useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
Which means its got 5005 threads built in.

And 5.8.0 with ithreads:
usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define

C.

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Re: Re: Does Config{usethreads} work on activestate's 5.8.0 on win2k?
by sureshr (Beadle) on Mar 13, 2003 at 14:24 UTC
    Output from Perl 5.8.0 -V is Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 0) configuration: Platform: osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define which basically says that useithreads is defined. But I also get for 5.6, the same Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 6 subversion 0) configuration: Platform: osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define And my perl test program does not work with 5.6 as I dont have the thread module. Another question is does use Thread and use threads same? What is the difference between them? thanks, -sureshr
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