> > I have successfully compiled the Perl 5.6 sources (took 4 hours on a Dual > > P3-733-512MB) and turned them into Debian packages (I needed them for > > There is no smp support under the hurd. Did you cross compile?
That is not precisely the situation. The Hurd has (in theory) excellent support for multiprocessors, i.e. it is highly multithreaded. However, neither gnumach nor oskit-mach currently has working SMP support. The Mach code base supports SMP in general, and there have been working SMP versions in the past; there should not be an unreasonable amount of work in making SMP work in either kernel.
