Am I correct in thinking that Parrot now builds with threads by default?
I.e., that if you *don't* want to build with threads you have to
explicitly opt-out by saying:
perl Configure.pl --without-threads
I ask as a relatively threads-ignorant person (which I think most
software developers probably are). For example, I have never built a
threaded Perl 5, nor, to the best of my knowledge, have I ever run on
one. And during the many months in which the threads branch was under
development, I was mainly concerned with one question: Which tests were
breaking?
So, I would welcome a presentation -- and perhaps inclusion in our
documentation -- of issues such as:
* Why does Parrot now build with threads by default?
* What exactly does "building Parrot with threads" mean?
* Under what circumstances would you want to build '--without-threads'?
Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan
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