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The line of code that Ilya objected to was a compile-time macro. There was no cost (for that line, anyway) to anyone who compiles non-threaded perl. Rob Alan Burlison wrote: > > Rob Cunningham wrote: > > > I am amazed that people are arguing over whether to include the patch based on > > the number of ops. Threaded perl as currently distributed is broken in a way > > that is fixed by this patch. > > There is a school of thought that would suggest that if threading is > broken it should be excised, rather than slowing 99% of perl scripts > (i.e. unthreaded ones) down any further... > > Alan Burlison -- Dr. Robert K. Cunningham Information System Technology Group rkc@ll.mit.edu MIT Lincoln Laboratory *** My comments, my opinions: my responsibility. PGP key available from http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371Thread Previous | Thread Next