Re: Perl 5.005 package

[Chip Salzenberg <chip@perlsupport.com>]

According to Joey Hess:
> I thought [we] were planning to do something like make a perl-thread
> package and leave threading off in the default perl.

Good.  Threading should NOT be in the default perl.  And I say this as
one of the core Perl developers.  Perl 5's threading is not ready for
prime time -- not as long as it imposes a serious performance penalty
on code that doesn't even use threads.
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