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On 15/04/07, Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> wrote: > Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > > On 13/04/07, Jerry D. Hedden <jdhedden@cpan.org> wrote: > >> Attached patch fixes Thread.pm with regard to changes in threads and > >> threads::shared, updates the POD, and adds a test file. > >> > >> (Leaves 5005threads stuff in place for now. As such, this patch is > >> suitable for maint. A forthcoming patch will remove the 5005threads > >> stuff.) > > > > Thanks, applied as #30953. > I realize that this is an offside comment, but are any of the thread > fixes being considered for the current release branch (5.8.x)? There are > a variety of issues with threaded Perl in the current release version > (5.8.8), which makes me very wary of using it in production code > (although from my understanding it's quite a bit better than Perl 5.005 > threads). It's very likely that the changes to threads and threads::shared will go in the next 5.8, but you now can also download and install them separately from CPAN.Thread Previous