| 1 | NOTE: This documentation describes the style of threading that was
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| 2 | available in Perl 5.005. Perl 5.6.0 introduced the early beginnings of
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| 3 | interpreter-based threads support, also known as ithreads, and in Perl
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| 4 | 5.8.0 the interpeter threads became available from perl level through
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| 5 | the threads and threads::shared modules (in Perl 5.6 ithreads are
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| 6 | available only internally and to XS extension builders, and used
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| 7 | by the Win32 port for emulating fork()). As of Perl 5.8.0, ithreads has
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| 8 | become the standard threading model for Perl.
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| 10 | If you really want the older support for threads described below,
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| 11 | it is enabled with:
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| 12 |
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| 13 | sh Configure -Dusethreads -Duse5005threads
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| 15 | Be warned that the old 5.005 implementation of threads is known
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| 16 | to be quite buggy, and unmaintained, which means that the bugs
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| 17 | are there to stay. (We are not mean by not fixing the bugs:
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| 18 | the bugs are just really, really, really hard to fix. Honest.)
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| 20 | The rest of this document only applies to the use5005threads style of
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