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

Fri Mar 9 19:13:41 UTC 2007
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

Charlie Brady wrote:
> 
>>>  Please make sure the RedHat's bugzilla is aware of the problem.
>>
>> 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()?

Yes, but that person probably didn't have a multi-(hyperthreaded) 
processor computer dedicated to a single task when he said that.  Or 
more than 1024 file descriptors open for that matter.

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   Les Mikesell
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