Re: Perl threads under Windows

On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 11:29 +0300, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Do you know if there are plans to have real Windows threads in a future perl 
> version, 5.x or 6.x that can share the memory and would be able to share 
> objects?

Ouch.  "real Windows threads"

Currently perl uses ithreads.  If there was a plan to do things
differently I would hope POSIX threads would be the method.  
> 
> I am asking because creating a multi threaded perl program that need to 
> share many objects is impossible and require using very complicated ways of 
> doing things.

I ran into the same problem and just redesigned my program to now share
objects.

> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Octavian