[ic] Perl and Threading

Stefan Hornburg (Racke) racke at linuxia.de
Thu Jun 22 11:59:56 EDT 2006


Henry Hartley wrote:
> I'm curious what the current situation is with regard to Interchange and
> threaded Perl.  I'm mostly familiar with Red Hat and Fedora
> distributions of Linux and they both come with threaded perl by default.
> I know the last time I was working with Interchange I needed to get a
> non-threaded perl running.  While it isn't a show stopper, it would
> certainly be easier if a machine could be run with the standard load.
> In addition to being easier to set up, it also means that patches to
> perl and its various modules can be updated automatically with yum
> rather than by hand.  In fact, it would be nice if I could yum update
> interchange, as well.
> 
> So, what is the status with Interchange and threaded Perl?  Is
> non-threaded perl still required?

With a recent Perl/DBI combination, non-threaded Perl isn't required but
still recommended.

> 
> I also understand that there were performance considerations.  For me,
> and for the site I'm preparing to work on, traffic will be low and I
> suspect the performance issues won't be a big factor.  If the only
> reason to require non-threaded perl is for performance, wouldn't it be
> better to allow it to run with threaded perl and just recommend
> non-threaded for performance reasons?
> 

DBI authors claimed to improve performance with threaded perl in
version 1.51, released a couple of days ago.

Bye
	Racke

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