seems like activestate has released it's version of perl 5.8.0 (beta), the threads && threads::shared are nicely supported, i already run some tests and the results seemed ok.
a quick link too : http://www.activestate.com/Products/Download/Register.plex?id=ActivePerl&type=Beta (i hope i'm not the last one who noted this...) [this is my sig i guess]
