Dear Alceu,

I don't *think* the overhead of compiling with threads on is a big issue for code that does not use threads. I am open to correction on that of course :-) I do have both a threaded and non-threaded available. Maybe I can test at some point.

I've had to jump thru' hoops to get my *threaded* performance (I mean - in a genuinely threaded application) up to scratch though (bascially reducing the memory footprint per thread) because it clones the environment in the new thread, including loaded modules, and so on. But I do have threaded Perl apps that run with 100's of threads just fine.

But, again, if you don't actually *use* threads, I'm not sure that matters.

Kind regards

Derek.