No (d|th)readed Tclkit builds
Jean-Claude Wippler <[email protected]> Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:52:56 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lang.tcl.starkit |
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For the record: I've decided not to provide / maintain threaded builds of Tclkit. No big news, because the current Tclkit download page did not contain threaded builds until now anyway. But I did at some point intend to switch over to threaded builds for 8.5 - no longer. My reasons are: - don't want to manage two release collections (not just tclkits, also the extensions) - don't think it's needed, multi-tasking suits me fine, also for multi-core use - don't think threads will be solid enough across all software involved for a long time If you want threads anyway, you'll either have to build things yourself using a modified genkit, or the new kitgen which can build threaded Tclkit Lite's. Or alternately, have a look at the various options offered by ActiveState. Then again, I *will* support Metakit in threaded mode for those souls who depend on it (MK's -shared flag can be useful as inter-thread data exchange, even for in-memory databases). So if you run into any problems with MK, whether in threaded mode or otherwise, please do let me know. My main development machine is dual-core and 64-bit, so I can definitely test and debug such cases. This applies to the open source side of things. Contact me if you need other fee-based arrangements. -jcw