There is a fundemental issue on how values are passed between
threads. Does the value leave one thread and enter the other or are
they shared.
The idea tossed around -internals was that a value that crosses a thread
boundary would have a wrapper/proxy attached to handle the mediation.
The
"SWM" == Steven W McDougall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Not unless it is so declared my $a :shared.
SWM Sure it is.
SWM Here are some more examples.
SWM Example 1: Passing a reference to a block-scoped lexical into a thread.
Depends on how locking/threading is designed. There is a fundemental
The more interesting case is this:
#!/my/path/to/perl
sub foo_generator { my $a = shift; sub { print $a++ } }
my $foo = foo_generator(1);
$foo-();
Thread-new($foo);
Is $a shared between threads or not?
$a is shared between threads.
The anonymous subroutine is a
