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in thread One piece of code, two mysteries! (UPDATED.)

When I commented out the line entirely,

Do you mean like this?:

#use threads stack_size => 4096;

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If so, you should have at the very minimum got an error: "Can't call method "async" without a package or object reference at ..."!?

To disable the stack_size parameter, you should do:

use threads; # stack_size => 4096;

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Re^5: One piece of code, two mysteries!
by Polyglot (Chaplain) on Oct 05, 2012 at 04:58 UTC
    That's interesting. Yes, I commented out the entire line, but got no error message. It was simply as if the program had hung. I had to CTRL + C out of it after I had waited a couple minutes or so. (Tried again later and it went over 12 min. before I lost patience.)

    Just for fun, I just ran it with the "use threads;" implementation, and it gave me the exact same results as with the 64k stack size.

    Blessings,

    ~Polyglot~

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