Re: our :shared $foo / iThreads

[Alan Burlison]

Chris Stith wrote:

> Memoization and iteration are fairly high-level details. IMHO,
> they shouldn't be in system libraries. They may be there, but
> it wouldn't take long to figure out which library functions do
> this if you were to start trying to use them in a threaded
> program. The world is not perfect. As long as there are issues
> with libraries you use, there will be issues with your code
> as well. All we can do, short of replacing all the libraries,
> is to minimize the damage.

You need to consider libraries other than the system ones, for example those
wrapped by XSUB modules.

Alan Burlison