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Re: Are PERL_COPY_ON_WRITE smokes useful?

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Nicholas Clark
Date:
May 2, 2007 04:42
Subject:
Re: Are PERL_COPY_ON_WRITE smokes useful?
Message ID:
20070502114206.GE18077@plum.flirble.org
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 12:35:34PM +0100, Steve Hay wrote:
> I'm about to turn threaded builds back on in my smoke configurations now 
> that they (hopefully) don't hang any more on Win32, but the smokes 
> really take too long then because there are too many configuration 
> combinations.

Threads. Cool.

> So I'm considering removing PERL_COPY_ON_WRITE from the configurations. 
> Will anyone miss this? If keeping it would be useful then I can set up a 
> smoke to exercise it instead of threads, say, once a week.

No, they aren't useful.
In fact, I think I'm guilty of not noticing that you were still doing them,
because the symbol became OLD_COPY_ON_WRITE some time ago.

Nicholas Clark

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