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<div>No objections! Perl of any vintage and configuration is fine for me!<br>
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On Sep 24, 2013, at 11:07 PM, "Chris Cowherd" <<a href="mailto:chris@donuts.co">chris@donuts.co</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>Hey Kevin - Roy from Demand Media will be your best bet on that question (cc'd in case he's not on the list)</div>
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<p>On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Kevin White <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kwhite@jasadvisors.com" target="_blank">kwhite@jasadvisors.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The version of Perl installed on an3 and an4 in /usr/bin/perl is actually a symlink to /usr/local/bin/perl5.14.4.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">That version of Perl was not built multi-threaded enabled. It appears that the ports system of FreeBSD doesn’t default to multi-threaded Perl, for reasons unknown.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Processing these gigantic data sets, I really could benefit from having threaded Perl. It would make it far easier to launch a thread of work and then gather its results when it was finished. There is some amount of easy-to-harvest parallelism,
because there are lots of small TLD data sets. But the large data sets, like home, end up running for hours as a single thread. I could do better, if I had multi-threaded Perl.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve asked admin, and they suggested I ask this list.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Who all uses Perl on this box? Does anyone have any objection to replacing the perl-5.14.4 build that’s out there with one that’s been built with threading enabled?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I understand that this could be considered a big deal, which is why I’m asking the group of users that I know of.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,</p>
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