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Alan Burlison
Date:
January 21, 2001 10:01
Subject:
Re: Does perl really need to use sigsetjmp? (18% performance hit)
Message ID:
3A6B23DD.AA32EAD6@uk.sun.com
Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:

> > Kinda both.  Perl5 threads are irredeemably broken, and IMHO should be
> > excised from the source as soon as possible - leaving them in only gives
> 
> Otherwise a nice idea but the source has been rather irredeemably
> ingrained in to the code.  Undoing it would be more work than gain,
> I think.  Think of it as a limp with which we must live.

Ok, Ok, I'll confess - I knew that all along really.  Felt good to say
it out loud thought ;-)

Alan Burlison
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