On måndag, augusti 12, 2002, at 11:45 , Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> Elizabeth Mattijsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> At 12:12 PM 8/11/02 +0100, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: >>>> The Thread::Tie module is a proof-of-concept implementation of >>>> another >>>> approach to shared variables. Instead of having shared variables >>>> exist >>>> in all the threads from which they are accessible, shared variable >>>> exist >>>> as "normal", unshared variables in a seperate thread. Only a tied >>>> object >>>> exists in each thread from which the shared variable is accesible. >>> That is actually exactly what threads::shared is supposed to do as >>> well. >>> The only difference being that the "separate thread" has a shadowy >>> existance >> >> Aha! So maybe there the "2 other threads were running" message is >> coming >> from, when you only started one other thread. > > It is a posibility. > No since it is just a perl interpreter, not a thread structure. >> Does this shadowy thread run >> always, even if you don't have threads::shared ? > > I think threads::shared bootstrap calls it into being. > > Yes Arthur
