Re: status of perl patch working around lack of TLS

[Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 08:11:33PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Dominic Hargreaves dixit:
> 
> >If you raise $TIMEOUT in that test file, do you get any further?
> 
> root@ara5:~/perl-5.12.3 # perl dist/threads-shared/t/stress.t
> 1..1
> ok 1
> root@ara5:~/perl-5.12.3 # fgrep TIMEOUT\ = dist/threads-shared/t/stress.t
>     my $TIMEOUT = 600;
> 
> Note that this is an (emulated) fast machine:
> 
> root@ara5:~/perl-5.12.3 # cat /proc/cpuinfo
> CPU:            68040
> MMU:            68040
> FPU:            68040
> Clocking:       194.9MHz
> BogoMips:       129.94
> Calibration:    649728 loops
> 
> Usual hardware has a fraction of that speed…

FYI: the patch has now gone upstream in any case:

<http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/4a278ec85c28bdfcfeffd327eb483181131afb8e>

so there's probably no benefit in working on removing this now.
Although if anyone has any strong feelings about it, do let us know.

Cheers,
Dominic.

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