From owner-freebsd-perl@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 9 18:01:21 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB6E4106573D for ; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 18:01:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tom@FreeBSD.org) Received: from eborcom.com (pochard.scrubhole.org [62.3.122.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2492C8FC13 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 18:01:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tom@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 39999 invoked by uid 1001); 9 Mar 2009 17:34:39 -0000 Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 17:34:39 +0000 From: Tom Hukins To: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090309173438.GA39921@eborcom.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org References: <27dbfc8c0903020033r65388ac8j1190008af28154f6@mail.gmail.com> <49B11D73.90409@protey.ru> <200903061604.50931.cm@therek.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Subject: Re: Upgrade to perl 5.10 X-BeenThere: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: maintainer of a number of perl-related ports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:01:25 -0000 On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 07:19:24PM +0200, Oren Maurer wrote: > I hope that the Perl 5.10 port will have threads by default I hope it won't. Perl's threads don't work well for many applications. A perl binary built with threading slows down all applications, even those that do not use threads, noticeably. I like that FreeBSD's Perl uses Perl's default settings in most cases, with the port letting users override them if they choose. Perl itself disables threads by default. > this is what U see in Perl with other OS'es. I usually build my own perl binaries on other operating systems, partly because of this. Tom