Re: compiling perl on freebsd to support ithreads

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From: Stas Bekman
Subject: Re: compiling perl on freebsd to support ithreads
Date: 15:01 on 27 Apr 2005

Tom Schindl wrote:
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> Stas Bekman schrieb:
> | Tom Schindl wrote:
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> |> Perl with compiled threads support (used or not used) is much slower and
> |> when new threads are started the whole memory is copied over because
> |> there's no copy-on-write logic like there is for fork.
> |
> |
> | Actually there is COW in the recent perls, but it doesn't perform very
> | well.
> |
> |
> 
> Good to know. I'm following p5p but have only recognized the CLONE_SKIP
> discussion ;-)

Just visited the p5p Olympus, and I was told that while COW exists it's 
not used by perl_clone (threads) yet. But it's planned to try and see 
whether it improves the situation some time later (probably after Nicholas 
releases 5.8.7).

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