On 6/8/07, Paul Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
FWIW, working off a single thread shouldn't be that bad. The Erlang VM design uses essentially this concept: http://www.erlang.se/euc/05/1710OTPupdate.ppt
+1 to Erlang being a good influence in the language and VM space. The problem with a single thread [1] in the Java VM is we still have too many blocking APIs (JDBC for example) and no lightweight continuation support. There's the consideration of porting Jacob to Scala, using the Actors library... it's the best hack known to the JVM to get a decent mix of concurrency, continuations, performance and brain not exploding. Of course, that begs the question of what is left in Jacob after that. A wrapper for pickler combinators? alex [1] Actually, 1 thread/cpu + 1
