Re^4: What is PERL_COPY_ON_WRITE Compile Option About

So does this imply that if one is not using threads, such as, when compiling perl for DBD::Oracle, then the CoW option is unnecessary? Please elaborate when one would want or need to turn on CoW.

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Re^5: What is PERL_COPY_ON_WRITE Compile Option About by hardburn (Abbot) on Mar 04, 2005 at 17:48 UTC
My advice is to just turn it on and forget about it. It's not going to hurt anything. IIRC, the OS is responsible for implementing CoW for `fork()`, but Perl threads are a different matter, since it looks like a single process as far as the kernel is concerned. "There is no shame in being self-taught, only in not trying to learn in the first place." -- Atrus, Myst: The Book of D'ni.	[reply] [d/l]