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in thread Score: Perl 1, Ruby 0

I went stomping around the 5.8.7 source, and located the TlsAlloc() call (in the ALLOC_THREAD_KEY macro), but can't find more than a couple instances of ALLOC_THREAD_KEY being called...probably requires a hard-core debug effort to track down why/where so many are needed.

I've been down that route before and become very lost in the myriad definition and redefinitions of everything that surrounds the whole PERL_GET_CONTEXT/Perl_get_context/aTHX stuff. I just tried again and got royally stuffed trying unwind the macros. Compilers are good at doing that--people (at least this person) ain't.

Upshot: Took a different tack and queried information about the TLS indexes from the OS from with in the thread itself, and whatever storage is being run out of, it isn't TLS!

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