Re: New PL/Perl failure with Safe 2.2x due to recursion (8.x & 9.0)

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:04:44AM -0800, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Feb 25, 2010, at 10:01 AM, Tim Bunce wrote:
>
> >> That's two unacceptable alternatives, you need to find a third one.
> >> I think most people will have no trouble settling on "do not update
> >> to Safe 2.2x" if you don't offer a better solution than these.
> >
> > I believe the next version of Safe will revert to Safe 1.19 behaviour
> > because the side effects of the change in 2.20 are too severe for it to
> > be left enabled by default.
>
> Which means losing sort $a <=> $b again, alas. Such was always the
> case in the past, so that might be an okay tradeoff to get recursive
> calls working again, but I certainly hope that Safe can be updated in
> the near future to give us both.
>
> There seem to be no good answers here.

There is one fairly good answer:

Use a perl that's compiled to support multiplicity but not threads.
That avoids the sort bug and, as an extra bonus, gives plperl a
significant speed boost.

Tim.