Re: [mod_perl2] Apache::DBI Win2K

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Joe Schaefer said:

 >> But with the amount of problems around perl's ithreads, I'm not sure
 >> it's worth the bother to finish that module. perl5-porters seems to be
 >> given up on ithreads in perl5 and hoping that perl6 will be done right.
 >
 > I'm not sure I'd agree with that, because wrt ithreads, the 5.8.x
 > line has improved massively since 5.8.0.  For instance, on
 > my linux box I've seen the startup times for the modperl test
 > suite reduced from a few minutes to a now just a few seconds
 > with 5.8.6.  I'm sure there are a ton of other unfixed bugs
 > in the ithread code itself, but that looks like real progress
 > to me.

I'm afraid this is not the case. I've just tested, on my machine it takes 
exactly the same time to start the mp2 test suite under perl 5.6.2 and 
5.8.7-tobe. Recently we have changed the test suite to start faster under 
threads (this is probably what you are experiencing).

 >> At least most of my ithreads-related bug reports are ignored. I'll
 >> give it a try though some time later.
 >
 >++stas!  Please keep banging on that wall; the ithreads stuff in
 >mp2 has way too much potential to let it fall into disrepair.

So far looks like a waste of time. hardly any perl users use threads. It 
seems that modperl is the only real application that uses threads.

I'm planning to look into perl6 and see if it's mature enough to better 
spend the efforts there.

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