Still, while I mostly prefer python to perl too these days, we have to
consider that perl is already a pre-requisite for projects using autoconf,
automake, and/or gnulib, so using perl would have the advantage of not
adding another requirement to the maintainer toolchain.
Certainl
Hi Stefano.
On 15.09.2011 21:08, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> Perl versions from 5.8 onwards should have a threading interface too,
> if I'm not mistaken. I don't know how powerful or easy-to-use it is,
> though.
Afaik ithreads support is an optional feature, not sure how distros out
there handle
Hi Martin.
On Thursday 15 September 2011, Martin von wrote:
> On 15.09.2011 11:37, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > I'm sure that a perl-based
> > implementation would be far more efficient, and probably faster
> > even if the perl implementation doesn't run its tests in parallel.
> >
> > Perl is well sui
