Re: our :shared $foo / iThreads

[Benjamin Sugars]

On Thu, 3 May 2001, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote:

> I hope you're not saying designing things badly is unavoidable because
> bad design already exists elsewhere in the code.  :-)

:-) Rather that your hands might be tied when certain things are beyond
your control.  Callouts to non-reentrant libraries, for instance, did not
seem to be protected by your scheme.

But perhaps the necessary precautions already exist in the core by virtue
of 5.005 threads?

> My best guess is that it is surely in the realm of the possible for
> Perl 5.  If it doesn't break binary compatibility, maybe even 5.6.x.

Wow, that sounds ambitious considering Jarkko wants 5.8.0 this summer.  
Would not 5.8.0 obviate 5.6.x?

Cheers,
-Ben

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