[CentOS-devel] Building perl (and perl threads memory leak)...

Ed Price

ed.price at gmail.com
Fri Mar 9 21:17:06 UTC 2007


> > Sure...I'll see if I can make a simpler reproducer.  It seems like
> > when you write something threads in any language simple goes out the
> > door.
>
> Yep. Didn't someone famous once say that threads is for those who can't
> work out how to use select()?

Maybe you're thinking of (the famous) Alan Cox's (famous) statement:

"A computer is a state machine. Threads are for people who cant
program state machines."

http://lkml.org/lkml/2000/1/22/172

Sorry for offtopicness,
-Ed



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