At 09:36 AM 7/30/02 +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > > Looks like stashes are not shared between threads. How > > is this related to saving memory ?
> However, Thread::Use can also be handy for modules that do not survive > the cloning process, such as PerlIO::gzip and many DBI::DBD modules... Actually, the thing about PerlIO::gzip isn't true. You can't create threads with a PerlIO::gzip layer open currently. Even if you don't need a PerlIO::gzip layer in the thread. There is no problem if you only want a PerlIO::gzip layer inside a thread only. So that is a different problem altogether. Liz
