Re: human language support

[Chas Owens <cowens intercall com>]

On 13 Jun 2001 23:40:32 -0400, Shlomi Fish wrote:
<snip> 
> The best way to handle callbacks is to place their logic on separate
> threads. I believe the ActivePerl distribution supports threads, but I'm
> not sure if thread support is built to perl by default in all
> distribtions. Thus, I'm not sure you can rely on it.
</snip>

You cannot rely on it.  Most Linux distros have it turned off and
when you are compiling your own version you are warned that threads
are unstable and may change in the future.  To make things worse 
there are two versions of threading: the version for 5.005 and a 
new version for 5.6.0.

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