Steven W McDougall wrote:
Does Perl6 support Symmetric MultiProcessing (SMP)?
This is a *huge* issue. It affects everything else that we do with
threads.
Umm... I don't know what you think you mean by 'SMP', but it doesn't
mean what you think it does. SMP means 'Symmetric Multi
Steven W McDougall wrote:
Does Perl6 support Symmetric MultiProcessing (SMP)?
This is a *huge* issue. It affects everything else that we do with
threads.
No it isn't. SMP is completely somebody else's problem. We need
a language that worlks right on a single processor. If the hooks we
On 20 Aug 2000, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
SWM Does Perl6 support Symmetric MultiProcessing (SMP)?
Perl5 does - see 'fork'. I'm guessing that Perl6 will have at
least that much support.
SWM This is a *huge* issue. It affects everything else that we do with
SWM threads.
Most operating system's
This belongs on -internals. The threading model will probably be
identical for all ports.
And my suspicion is that -internals will use whatever the platform
provides.
I don't think we want to write a portable threading capability.
chaim
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