> However I am faced with the following facts.
> 
> Some perl functions are not threadsafe on some platforms
> We have no idea how widespread this is

I have a rough idea: it is quite farspread, and the functions
(functions as in "perlfunc") it affects are pretty well known.

> When it comes to true multi cpu box I only have one dual machine I can play
> with (doesn't matter if I crash it), and that is a linux machine. But yes I
> am very aware of the dangers with multithreading on multi cpu machines.

When you have a test suite, I can run it on 3-4-8-16-64 CPU boxes. 

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