in reply to Major changes since 5.6.1

For me the biggest thing in Perl 5.8, even more so than Encode and in-memory file handles is PerlIO. Also threads.

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Re^2: Major changes since 5.6.1
by Courage (Parson) on Jan 06, 2006 at 21:18 UTC
    Perl's threads did not change between 5.6.1 and 5.8: they were unstable and memory-hungry, now they are same. May be few bugs fixed, but they not ready for use.
    Every time I tried to use those, I forced to undo threading after random crashes.

    Best regards,
    Courage, the Cowardly Dog

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      Different folks have different experiences, I guess. I have found the user level interface to ithreads added in 5.8.0 (that's 'thread' module etc) useful and stable in a number of situations.
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