in reply to Things you need to know before programming Perl ithreads
Well, a COWed approach to shared variables is being considered for Ponie, but that's still at least a year or so in the future. And that doesn't seem to fix the non-shared data copying problem when a thread is started.
I think you meant a COWed approach to non-shared variables, and in fact that should fix the data copying problem.
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