This has been quite helpful...only, I'm curious now. It's been about a few months since I've installed 5.8. In fact, the machine that Chad (gnu@perl) is talkin about here is probably the one I installed it on.

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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