OpenBSD 4.1: Puffy Strikes Again (O'ReillyNet)

OpenBSD 4.1: Puffy Strikes Again (O'ReillyNet)

Posted May 5, 2007 18:37 UTC (Sat) by niner (subscriber, #26151)
In reply to: OpenBSD 4.1: Puffy Strikes Again (O'ReillyNet) by khim
Parent article: OpenBSD 4.1: Puffy Strikes Again (O'ReillyNet)

> But if you enable threads support in Perl - everything goes to hell. Threaded Perl breaks things even if you are not using threads and/or C extensions.

At least the SuSE distribution has shipped a theaded perl for years now without any problems. The distribution itself uses perl in many places, even in yast, so if threaded Perl were as bad as you describe, users would surely have noticed it by now.

ithreads may be far from the best implementation possible, but they are at least usable, which is more than I'm used to from other scripting languages. PHP does not even have multi threading support, python's is pretty much useless due to the global interpreter lock. If you want to actually use your multiple CPU cores with python, you have to use multiple processes.

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