Threading in Parrot vs Perl

2005-04-28 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 10:00, Luke Palmer wrote: Aaron Sherman writes: Well, more to the point, autothreading of junctions will hit the wall of Parrot duping the interpreter. That's probably not something you want to suffer just to resolve a junction, is it? What? Why will it do that?

Re: Threading in Parrot vs Perl

2005-04-28 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 12:46:53PM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote: On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 10:00, Luke Palmer wrote: Aaron Sherman writes: Well, more to the point, autothreading of junctions will hit the wall of Parrot duping the interpreter. That's probably not something you want to

Re: Threading in Parrot vs Perl

2005-04-28 Thread Rod Adams
Aaron Sherman wrote: On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 10:00, Luke Palmer wrote: Aaron Sherman writes: Well, more to the point, autothreading of junctions will hit the wall of Parrot duping the interpreter. That's probably not something you want to suffer just to resolve a junction, is it?

Re: Threading in Parrot vs Perl

2005-04-28 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 13:55, Rod Adams wrote: I would be dismayed if autothreading used threads to accomplish it's goals. Simple iteration in a single interpreter should be more than sufficient. Sorry, I misunderstood. Thanks for the clarification. -- Aaron Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Threading in Parrot vs Perl

2005-04-28 Thread Uri Guttman
RA == Rod Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RA I would be dismayed if autothreading used threads to accomplish it's RA goals. Simple iteration in a single interpreter should be more than RA sufficient. how autothreading is implemented is distinct from the language feature. a simple version

Re: Threading in Parrot vs Perl

2005-04-28 Thread Sam Vilain
Rod Adams wrote: I would be dismayed if autothreading used threads to accomplish it's goals. Simple iteration in a single interpreter should be more than sufficient. For sure. No point in doing 10_000 cycles to set up a scratch area for a single boolean test that might take 10 cycles. A