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On 3/1/14 3:46 PM, Christian Walde wrote: > Earlier in the week there was discussion in #p5p about amending thread > documentation to discourage people from using them unless they really > had to. This is said patch, which adds a concise explanation of what's > wrong with threads, as well as a suggestion for alternative solution, to > the documentation of threads.pm and the threads tutorial. > > Feel free to bikeshed or merge. :) > I think the patch is well written. I myself have never needed to use threads in Perl, nor, to the best of my knowledge, have threads been used in any production use at places where I've been employed. In addition, the recognition that "very few people are likely to get threads right" is something I've heard from very skilled Perl programmers -- as well as from skilled programmers in other languages about threads in *their* languages. Perhaps outside of the core documentation someone could write a blog post providing examples of where CPAN modules provide better alternatives to threads. Thank you very much. Jim KeenanThread Previous