At 06:18 PM 1/7/2002 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 09:13:23PM +0800, Gunther Birznieks wrote: >> Yes, but what does this have to do with 5.6.1? Are you saying you can't >> write thread-safe code that is also backwards compatible with 5.5? > >of course not. but if we need threads anyway (do we?) or in most of the >cases, does there need to be support for 5.5 ? >
Hi, I personally do not plan to rely on threads or thread-safety whatsoever. Building Enterprise Software does not depend on it. And the portability issues of multi-threading are numerous. My experience with threads is that the performance overhead of using general-purpose thread-safe libraries (RogueWave in C++) with all of their internal locking is so great that it is rarely overcome by the supposed performance benefits of threading. I am designing P5EEx::Blue to operate in a multi-process/IPC environment. I will keep multi-threading in mind in the design, mainly to support multi-threaded mod_perl 2.0 on the Windows platform. Stephen
