Re: [perl.git] branch blead, updated. v5.13.1-198-g0cb20da

[email protected] (Steffen Mueller)
Newsgroups perl.perl5.porters
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
> On 15 June 2010 22:45, Nicholas Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Other than Mandriva, does every OS distribution ship a threaded perl?
> 
> Unfortunately, Mandriva now ships a threaded perl. I think that a 3rd
> party app written in perl was requiring threads, so they punished
> every perl user with the performance impact of threads just for that
> edge case.

That may be my fault.

I started using threads for concurrency in Padre, which is, I believe, 
the app in question.

Sorry about that. But I firmly believe that if you need a performant 
perl as opposed to a fully-featured one, you should compile your own anyway.

--Steffen

PS: I think OSX ships an unthreaded perl?
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