Re: [Camelbones-devel] threading

[Sherm P. <sh...@do...>]

On Mar 20, 2004, at 6:22 PM, Tom Insam wrote:

> So I want threads.
>
> I've been getting very weird and non-predictable behaviour when trying 
> it, though. Is this likely to be my fault, or is this just not gonna 
> happen?

I've been afraid to try it. ;-)

Threads in Perl are a moving target. Even aside from the fact that the 
Apple-supplied Perl for 10.1 & 10.2 didn't have threading enabled 
because of issues with Apple's libc, the API has completely changed 
from 5.005 to 5.6, and again from 5.6 to 5.8. Whenever it comes up on a 
Perl group or list, the response has invariably been "don't do it, 
threads ain't soup yet."

Still, Cocoa's threads are nothing but a very thin wrapper over 
pthreads, and you can use both NSThread and low-level pthreads 
functions in an app. So if Perl is using pthreads, I'd tend to think it 
should be possible. Probably not very easy - nothing about threading 
ever is - but possible.

It's definitely not something I want to tackle for 0.2.x though - and 
probably not for the initial 0.3.0 release either.

sherm--