On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 19:42, Jonathan Leffler wrote: > My understanding is that a Perl with multi-threading where you do not use > the multithreading should be as stable as a Perl without the multithreading. > However, there's a chance that some modules may not be so happy. OTOH, DBI > shouldn't be one of those modules; it ensures single-tracking through it. > OTOOH, if you aren't using the multi-threading, there still shouldn't be any > problem.
I've not experienced instability due to using a multi-threaded perl. I have however experienced significant performance gains (on linux) be recompiling a perl installation to be single-threaded. About 100% faster for in writing out a large text file created by retrieving data from an Oracle db. Jared
