Yes, but what does this have to do with 5.6.1? Are you saying you can't write thread-safe code that is also backwards compatible with 5.5?
At 06:53 PM 1/7/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 09:20:04AM +0800, Gunther Birznieks wrote: > > You only need these for server based systems. You don't need this for > every > > component section of p5ee. > >why not? if the libraries are used in a threaded environment they need to >be thread safe. so if you have just a single important threaded application >your libraries will have to support it. you can build layers around >non-thread-safe libs but this is a lot of work and isnt possible in every >case. > >it's not about a specific thread model. but it should get more attention >and should be tought of when designing. > >torvald > > > > > At 08:23 AM 1/5/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 12:22:56PM -0500, Stephen Adkins wrote: > > > > > > > > Based on this, are there still strong advocates for increasing the > > > > *minimum* supported version of Perl from 5.5.3 to 5.6.1? > > > > Are attributes (and incomplete Unicode support) worth leaving the > > > > 5.5.x world behind? > > > > > > > > > >you will have to support threads or at least provide thread-safe > libraries. > > >that includes using the threading model (ithreads as it looks). > > > > > >it seems like concurrency and distributed system aspects dont get the > > >attention that they need, at least to me. > > > > > > > > >torvald > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Gunther Birznieks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > eXtropia - The Open Web Technology Company > > http://www.eXtropia.com/ > > __________________________________________________ Gunther Birznieks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) eXtropia - The Open Web Technology Company http://www.eXtropia.com/
