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Elizabeth Mattijsen <liz@dijkmat.nl> writes: >At 11:12 +0100 10/24/03, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: >>Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> writes: >>>On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 09:47:21PM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote: >>>> On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:15:52PM +0200, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: >>>> > Well, maybe someone can figure out what is going on here and maybe >> >> > we'll get a fix for 5.8.2? >> >I meant to reply to this "not likely unless someone does it real soon" >> >> Whether this will be integrated in 5.8.2 is up to Nick. >> >I confess I don't understand the sharing system well enough to be a good >> >judge of this. >>As a person that worked on the internals of the sharing, the FREETMPS >>part at least gets my "vote". Would be good for Liz and Arthur >>to comment though. > >Hmmm... I feel I can't say anything sensible about this patch: >although I've done a lot with threads as a user, I am not qualified >to say anything about its internal implementation. It is your expertise as a user that I wanted to tap into - my perception is you have code to hand to try against patched perl, and so find out if patch makes things "worse" for some corner case. >But if it fixes >the memory leak, I'm all for it even if it would be a general >slowdown of threads execution. If you're really interested in speed >for parallell processing applications, you either go for a solution >with fork, or you don't do it in Perl. > > > >Liz