On onsdag, juli 24, 2002, at 11:43 , Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:
> >> ... i >> guess that the clone-all strategy was chosen to make the transition to >> ithreads when using old code easier. so the "new" program knows how to >> handle the packages it uses, and which have to be cloned or not. > > It was chosen, as Marc pointed out, because there is so much going on in an interpreter lightweight threads are not really possible, there are just too many locks that need to be aqquired, even worse when you use refcounting. But also to make it much easier to program with threads, and because it fit in better with mod_perl strategy. Arthur
