Re: Perl 5.005 package

[Chip Salzenberg <chip@perlsupport.com>]

According to Darren/Torin/Who Ever...:
> But, threading isn't completely stable in the stable releases of Perl
> and involves a noticeable performance hit even when you aren't running
> threading.  Isn't this correct or am I misremembering again?

This is all correct.  But it's not significantly better in the
development versions than in the stable ones.  Perl 5's threading
support is just plain dangerous and slow, and it always has been.
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