well, system calls to program & program & program & and waking occasionally to check the file system, can run it in a single thread.
2009/6/9 Issac Goldstand <[email protected]>: > Yossi's right. Solaris's perl (and the one in Coolstack) come without > threads (Sun says they're still too experimental), unlike almost every > other vendor distribution which does have thread support by default. We > ended up compiling our own Perl to get around this. > > Note that ActivePerl (IIRC) has thread support in Solaris > out-of-the-box. (The reason we didn't use this is because we would have > had to compile Net::SSLeay ourselves, and we decided we'd rather compile > everything ourselves if we had to touch compilers already). We ran > benchmarks, and IIRC our Perl actually came out ahead, though not by much. > > Yitzchak > > Yossi Itzkovich wrote: >> The first one (Perl 5.8.4) is the one which comes with Solaris 10: >> usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef >> usemultiplicity=undef >> >> The second one is one 5.8.8 compiled by our system group: >> usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef >> usemultiplicity=undef >> >> Yossi >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >> Of Gabor Szabo >> Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 9:24 PM >> To: Perl in Israel >> Subject: Re: [Israel.pm] Parallel jobs >> >> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Yossi >> Itzkovich<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Well, you missed one very important point: Perl is compiled by default >>> **without** threads support. I don't/can't run a personal Perl build- I >>> must use the system's one. >>> >> >> which OS are you talking about and which version of perl? >> >> Gabor >> _______________________________________________ >> Perl mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl >> _______________________________________________ >> Perl mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl >> > > _______________________________________________ > Perl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl > -- -- vish _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
