On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 17:56 -0400, Sandro Magi wrote: > How do you detect deadlocks? Is the procedure you describe below where > the thread is GC'd?
deadlocked = unreachable. > Sounds interesting. I'll have to think about it a bit more, as I think > it almost exactly reverses my ingrained block/unblock semantics. That's what control inversion does. But no problem, you can invert again. > Still trying to grasp this. How do you forget to "plug in" a channel? Pass it as an argument. > How does the async I/O introduce lockups? Synchronous threads do not block really .. they just exchange control to another thread. Lockup is impossible. Async (pre-emptive) threads really DO block. > Do multiple kernel threads > execute the queue of fthreads simultaneously? No. At most one queue per pthread. -- John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net> Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Felix-language mailing list Felix-language@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/felix-language
