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[Austin Schutz]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 02:28:37PM -0700, Joshua Keroes wrote:
> On (Fri, Jul 19 14:16), Austin Schutz wrote:
> > 	Anyone had a chance to use them extensively? Are they usably
> > stable?
> 
> Well, all the tests passed when I installed 580. The rumors running
> around indicate that they are, indeed, stable.
> 

	Was hoping for actual operational experience. Thus
'use them extensively'.

> For info, see `perldoc perlthrtut`
> 
> See also http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/11/threads.html , Artur's
> article on writing thread-safe modules.
> 
> Maybe this helped?

	Somewhat. The thread safe article is interesting. I appreciate the
pointers.

	Austin
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