[Orca-users] Threads

[Hudes, Dana]

Blair: I will work on that this week
Note that threads all share common stack so you need a lot more stack space than default. I'll put in some code to check for / deal with that



----- Original Message -----
From: Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com>
To: Hudes, Dana
Cc: orca-users at orcaware.com <orca-users at orcaware.com>
Sent: Sun Aug 30 21:28:18 2009
Subject: Re: [Orca-users] Threads


On Aug 30, 2009, at 6:14 PM, Hudes, Dana wrote:

> Has anyone tried replacing the spawning of bunzip2 processes with  
> threads using Compress::Bzip2?
> If so any feedback?
>
> Blair: you probably chose not to do this because the solaris- 
> distributed Perl is not threaded. Is that correct?
>

IIRC, at the time there wasn't a Compress::Bzip2 module.  Having patch  
to use it would be nice instead of forking bzunip2's.

Blair

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