At Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:16:43 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Hello,
I'm setting up a new server on 5.4 and noticed this in the perl.spec file:
- Mon Jul 21 2008 Stepan Kasal - 4:5.8.8-14.el5
- add two patches, which...
- Resolves: #435505, #431041
- remove %%define threading, the non-threading variant is not supported, Related: 435376
That comment wasn't there when I set up a server on 5.2 a few months back and the %define threading option was still in the perl.spec file, making it easy for me to create my own non-threaded perl.
I want a non-threaded perl because the mod_perl folks say that the performance is better on a non-threaded perl.
I believe I can compare the spec files and figure out where to edit the new spec file, but I wondered about that "not supported" comment.
Is there something "bad" about the non-threading variant?
Probably the same thing that is bad about a single core processor. Which are pretty much no longer available (except for processors meant for little SBC/Embedded systems). I suspect that either RH or (more likely) the Perl people don't want to have to support two versions of Perl, one with and one without threading.
Thanks!
Take care,
Kurt Hansen khansen@charityweb.net _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos