From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2007-09-23T05:35:08+09:00
Subject: Re: How fast does your Ruby run?

Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists wrote:
> If I infer correctly it's rather one more strike against compiling with 
> the "--enable-pthread" switch. So while it's yet another oportunity of 
> Debian bashing I guess the more clever option would be to ask why
> "--enable-pthread" sucks so bad and whether ____Ubuntu____ (note that 
> possibly Debian uses it too, I don't know) should switch it off...

The --enable-pthread might be for compatibility with the tcl/tk package 
(IIRC correctly, they should either both use it or both not use it).

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