Is the ithreads implementation safe?

[David Morel]

According to Network Programming with Perl, "the 5.005 thread
implementation has known bugs that can lead to mysterious crashes ...
in fact, the Perl thread documentation warns that multithreading
should not be used in production systems."

What about the newer ithreads implementation? Is it safe? Would you
use it in mission critical systems? Finally, what do you think about
the safety/reliability of the Thread::Pool module?

-- David Morel

[Christopher Shatto]

Check the documentation on the 'threads' pragma for details on the 5.8
threads implementation. 5.8 threads are acceptably stable. I
personally have never experienced issues with them on Red Hat Linux,
Windows XP, WinNT, or FreeBSD.

David Morel wrote:

> According to Network Programming with Perl, "the 5.005 thread
> implementation has known bugs that can lead to mysterious crashes ...
> in fact, the Perl thread documentation warns that multithreading
> should not be used in production systems."
>
> What about the newer ithreads implementation? Is it safe? Would you
> use it in mission critical systems? Finally, what do you think about
> the safety/reliability of the Thread::Pool module?
>
> -- David Morel