RE:(2) Threading - Not as bad as you say

[Russ]

Well......
They are of questionable stability.

Our company has multi-threaded Perl code as a midleware server (Java/Perl/SQL) used in a production environment, no less. As long as we do not run the server SMP (it really hurts to have two CPUs but only use one...), we have no problems.

Yes, we are considerably daft to have done such a thing (over a year ago, now), but it works well, in the right conditions.

Russ