Perl/TCL threads

[John Richard Moser]

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Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 02:35:52PM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote:
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> Just for Perl, that's a couple of hundred packages that would need to be
> changed. I think we'd be best off waiting until Debian does this
> (perhaps with a new upstream release of Perl).
> 

changed being recompiled, or rewritten?

Like I said, there's no need to do this, though maybe for SMP (but I
don't use an SMP system and can't test)
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