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@@ -604,6 +604,20 @@ line so that the hint files can make appropriate adjustments. The default is to compile without thread support. +As of v5.5.64, perl has two different internal threads implementations. +The 5.005 version (5005threads) and an interpreter-based implementation +(ithreads) with one interpreter per thread. By default, Configure selects +ithreads if -Dusethreads is specified. However, you can select the old +5005threads behavior instead by either + + sh Configure -Dusethreads -Duse5005threads + +or by + sh Configure -Dusethreads -Uuseithreads + +Eventually (by perl v5.6.0) this internal confusion ought to disappear, +and these options may disappear as well. + =head2 Selecting File IO mechanisms Previous versions of perl used the standard IO mechanisms as defined in |