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On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 09:31:06 -0700, choroba@matfyz.cz wrote: > From time to time, we may mark language constructs and > features which we consider to have been mistakes as > discouraged. Threads in their current implementation are arguable a mistake. You loose ~30% of performance and who-measured-how-much memory by just using perl build with threads. And most of XS CPAN is up to some degree threads-unsafe (pure-perl CPAN is safe, so the goals for threads is reached, but still). > Discouraged features aren't currently candidates > for removal, but we may later deprecate them if they're found > to stand in the way of a significant improvement to the Perl > core. Threads are not going anywhere by this definition. Just discouraged. --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=133021Thread Previous | Thread Next