Elizabeth Mattijsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When you use an external library in Perl, such as e.g. libxml, you > have Perl data-structures and libxml data-structures. The Perl > data-structures contain pointers to the libxml data-structures.
> In comes the starting of an ithread and Perl clones all of the Perl > data-structures. But it copies _only_ does things it knows about. > And thus leaves the pointers to the libxml data-structures untouched. > Now you have 2 Perl data-structures that point to the _same_ libxml > data-structures. Voila, instant sharing. I see. Our library loading code should take care of that. On thread creation we call again the _init code, so that the external lib can prepare itself to be used from multiple threads. But don't ask me about details ;) > Liz leo
