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From:
Alan Burlison
Date:
January 9, 2001 10:19
Subject:
Re: Does perl really need to use sigsetjmp? (18% performance hit)
Message ID:
3A5B5630.5F9986F3@uk.sun.com
Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:

> Can those that fear breakage cook up tests that prove things
> work the way they expect (we could start with program from the
> 5.002 vintage archive Alan found).

Note that Raphaels test script shows that the combination of eval and
signal handlers (the very reasom for using sigsetjmp) is broken anyway,
and as setjmp and sigsetjmp are not MT-safe they can't be used in
threaded perl.
 
Alan Burlison
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