Perl/TCL threads

[John Richard Moser]

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On Gentoo, I ran for several months with USE="threads ithreads" for
Perl, TCL, and TK.  This enables threaded interpreters and such, but
"may break some apps."

In my experience, once Perl/TCL/TK is compiled threaded, the ABI is
different, but the API is the same.  Thus, xchat's perl/tcl plug-ins,
and anything else linked against the perl, TCL, TK, etc libraries, must
be recompiled against the new libraries.  Scripts are fine.

Does ubuntu use threads in the interpreter languages?  If not, and
nothing in main breaks from it, I'd like to see this.  It's not
immensely important, though.
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