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On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Rocco Caputo <rcaputo@pobox.com> wrote: > Perl's threads are deprecated outside perl5-porters. When asked for help, Perl's users, Porters, and activists will usually harangue people to stop using them. But "deprecated" has a specific meaning that I think is incorrect. To state my own position, threads in Perl are effectively "discouraged" outside their necessity for (imperfect) fork emulation on Windows. And I thought we should make that explicit and explain why in the relevant documentation to warn people – particularly from other languages – that threads in Perl are not something to be used lightly (pun not intended). David -- David Golden <xdg@xdg.me> Twitter/IRC: @xdgThread Previous | Thread Next