The -Dusethreads flag now enables the experimental interpreter-based thread
support by default. To get the flavor of experimental threads that was in
-5.005 instead, you need to ask for -Duse5005threads.
+5.005 instead, you need to run Configure with "-Dusethreads -Duse5005threads".
As of v5.5.640, interpreter-threads support is still lacking a way to
create new threads from Perl (i.e., C<use Thread;> will not work with
interpreter threads). C<use Thread;> continues to be available when you
-ask for -Duse5005threads, bugs and all.
+ask for use5005threads, bugs and all.
=head2 New Configure flags
by running Configure with C<-Dflag>.
usemultiplicity
- use5005threads
+ usethreads useithreads (new interpreter threads: no Perl API yet)
+ usethreads use5005threads (threads as they were in 5.005)
- use64bitint (equal to now deprecated 'use64bits')
+ use64bitint (equal to now deprecated 'use64bits')
use64bitall
uselongdouble
usemorebits
uselargefiles
- usesocks (only SOCKS v5 supported)
+ usesocks (only SOCKS v5 supported)
=head2 Threadedness and 64-bitness now more daring