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JULIA_COPY_STACKS=1 disable threading #169

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@arnaud-ma

This upstream issue: JuliaLang/julia#47591 is still current.

It would be good to (highly) warn the user about this. It is very difficult and takes a lot of time to get to the source of the bug, we must realize that:

  1. there is a slowdown
  2. multithreading is disabled even if Threads.nthreads() != 1
  3. it comes from JULIA_COPY_STACKS
  4. it comes from JavaCall

I don't know if this is the case for all systems though. My versioninfo:

julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.11.5
Commit 760b2e5b739 (2025-04-14 06:53 UTC)
Build Info:
  Official https://julialang.org/ release
Platform Info:
  OS: Linux (x86_64-linux-gnu)
  CPU: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LLVM: libLLVM-16.0.6 (ORCJIT, znver3)
Threads: 16 default, 0 interactive, 8 GC (on 16 virtual cores)
Environment:
  JULIA_COPY_STACKS = 1

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