On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 02:24:29AM -0600, David Nicol wrote:
> i noticed the threads documentation says that thread IDs count upwards to
> infinity.
>
> We could recycle old thread IDs in a FIFO way using a strategy similar
> to the indices in Array::Frugal.
This would serve no purpose that I can see.
> If thread objects are kept in an internal array indexed by tid, and I
> curious if they are -- i do not know -- using a frugal array instead
> would fix that memory leak.
A minute's effort to run the following code
$ perl586t -we 'use threads;1 while threads->new(sub{1})->join'
would have shown you that there is no such leak, rather than having to
bother the whole list with alarmist nonsense.
Dave.
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