EV on AIX?

[Marc Lehmann]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 04:02:59PM -0600, Darin McBride <darin.mcbride at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Actually, after further conversations with Peeter (the guy who wrote that 
> blog, he's the primary guy responsible for the AIX "port" of DB2, so seems 
> knowledgable/experienced), the patch isn't quite right.

If that patch wasn't right (correct) then the new patch can't be corretc
either, as the memory fence has to be a superset of the acquire and release
fences.

But, by pure symmetry, it is likely correct, and then more efficient.

Thanks for researching this further!

> AnyEvent (all started on rt 108470, and I want to apologise for that whole 
> thread, I was embarrassed to be involved in it, nevermind having opened the 

Ah right, so that was you.... Well, the best for everybody is to not think
about it, I guess.

> > Or maybe your aix box is just too old *g*
> 
> AIX 6.1 - which comes with perl 5.8.8.  Old enough. :-)

5.8.8 is really old, given that we have this superbly fine 5.8.9 release :)

But then, I have seen systems ship woth 5.8.7 (which is quite broken, much
worse than 5.8.6 for example), so I guess you should count yourself lucky
to have such a slim perl available to you.

> Did that work?  Happier? :-)

No, AIX was just too strong an experience for me to ever forget it :)

> cpan still insists on installing 3.4.  Even 
> https://metacpan.org/search?q=common%3A%3Asense or 
> https://metacpan.org/module/common::sense seem to imply that 3.4 is the 
> latest.  Are you sure you've released 3.5? :-)

I am sure I tried, because I keep a log these days, because last year,
there were a few other incidents like this (should have been released,
but wasn't), and to make sure it isn't me just getting old, I started a
log. So, cpan-upload, for some reason, stopped working reliably sometime
last year, because it ran without any error output, yet cpan clearly never
received the file.

D'oh.

> > Try gtk+, because that has a working perl interface, so you can switch
> > back to a language that is actually good at gui logic. OTOH, touching gtk+
> > from C (and even C++) always has something heroic... :)
> 
> I do everything in kde, so I'm a little biased toward Qt, but you're right, it 
> doesn't really support perl very well.  Or perl support Qt.  Whatever.  :-)

I'm no friend of qt, but it's definitely perl not supporting qt, not the
other way round :)

-- 
                The choice of a       Deliantra, the free code+content MORPG
      -----==-     _GNU_              http://www.deliantra.net
      ----==-- _       generation
      ---==---(_)__  __ ____  __      Marc Lehmann
      --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ /      schmorp at schmorp.de
      -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\