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On Wed, 2 May 2007 12:42:06 +0100, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote:
> 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,
Not only Steve.
> because the symbol became OLD_COPY_ON_WRITE some time ago.
/me hurries to take that out ...
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