On torsdag, feb 20, 2003, at 18:48 Europe/Stockholm, Marc M. Adkins wrote:
People were using win95 in production as well, the point would be?
I believe I've heard from at least one other company using 5.005 threads in
production. I've also heard from any number of people who claim that they
bomb all the time. C'est la guerre.
It has been proven impossible to do a reference counting gc in a threaded environment work effectively, while it is true that ithreads model has problems, and that it could be refined a lot more, including package level sharing and so on.
One of the main problems is that the active coder of ithreads (me) has not been able to use them a lot because of a shift in the company that employs me, and that the only user of ithreads that says something is the mod_perl team, and they really like the ithreads model.
So the current implementors are one step away from the target audience, largely because I have no time for other projects than working on the perl core, and that the time I had available in work area is no more (but soon I am going to be looking for work, so I might have some more time). It would be helpful if people started discussing how things could work and maybe, god forbid, provide patches.
Arthur
