does that stop you from using threads? Or just fork?

On a second reading, it seems that you might only miss out on fork emulation. One *can* build perl with PERL_MALLOC, USE_MULTI and USE_ITHREADS, but without USE_IMP_SYS (and I've now just done that) ... which, according to the comments in the makefile.mk/Makefile, would mean that you miss out on fork emulation, but not threading ... and that's exactly what I'm finding: 
C:\_32\comp\perl-5.11.2>perl -Mthreads -e "print \"ok\""
ok
C:\_32\comp\perl-5.11.2>perl -e "fork()"
The fork function is unimplemented at -e line 1.

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(And I still get good results regarding the concatenation operator.)

Existing ppm packages for extensions would, according to the comments in the makefile.mk/Makefile, be unusable on such a perl.

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^6: Why is Windows 100 times slower than Linux when growing a large scalar? by syphilis
in thread Why is Windows 100 times slower than Linux when growing a large scalar? by Anonymous Monk

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