On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:08:16PM -0700, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote:
> On Fri, 04 May 2001 15:49:05 CDT, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> >The honorable but somewhat unruly gathering is hereby called to order.
> >
> >(1) Sarathy is happy with the ithreads model and would like
> > to use the _r versions where available to make it even safer.
> > Finding those versions is "a little matter of Configure programming".
>
> I sincerely hope that I'm not alone in thinking that the ithreads stuff
> as it exists today is useful.
Obviously not: Anton wouldn't be attempting to make it Perl-visible
otherwise -- and if you remember I have been asking for it on and off,
if nothing else at least to try out.
For Windows platforms it's definitely better than non-forkedness,
and IIRC Chris was thinking of using it in MacOS Classic.
> If nobody else thinks it is useful, I'd be agreeable to removing all
> the USE_ITHREADS code from the sources, and retiring promptly to the
> Himalayas. ;-)
Hey, get in line! I was thinking of Himalayas first!
> Thanks for your time,
>
> Sarathy
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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