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Builing Perl on OS X "Tiger"
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| Robert Hicks 2005-11-27, 6:58 pm |
| I would like to build 5.8.7 on Tiger. It comes to a point in the
install that asks whether I want a "threaded" version of Perl. It says
it is "new but stable".
For those of you that have built on Tiger, did you build a "threaded"
or "non-threaded" version?
Robert
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| Michael Vilain 2005-11-27, 6:58 pm |
| In article <1133104200.299670.167870@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"Robert Hicks" <sigzero@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to build 5.8.7 on Tiger. It comes to a point in the
> install that asks whether I want a "threaded" version of Perl. It says
> it is "new but stable".
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> For those of you that have built on Tiger, did you build a "threaded"
> or "non-threaded" version?
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> Robert
Unless you have a dual or quad machine, building a multi-threaded perl
is a waste of time. The version that comes with MacOS X 10.4 was good
enough for me. What are you going to use perl for anyway? If it's the
web, isn't mod_perl different than main perl environment? Would
multi-threading gain you anything as a thread of the apache process?
Besides, wouldn't anything that's really compute intensive be better
coded in a compiled language to take advantage of multi-threading? Or
are you just prototyping something?
[now donning asbestos suit]
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| Robert Hicks 2005-11-27, 6:58 pm |
| I am just prototyping something and I wanted to mirror my work install.
Thanks for the input.
Robert
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