The threads branch is not abandoned. In fact it just received some commits recently. My guess is that Jeff will finish the multi-threading work once he graduates in a couple of months. :-)
-viral On Saturday, November 8, 2014 11:37:29 PM UTC+5:30, Jörg Winter wrote: > > From some users blogs I was getting the impression, that the API and > semantics of coroutines (yield) is not fully documented or is subject to > future changes (?) > I guess, I'm not the only one interested in the subject, if Julia will > ever have similar means to CSP style concurrency as Go or core.async have, > as this style is quite appealing and useful... well, and because kinda > everyone is doing it > > Also, is this the purpose of the ominous "threads" branch in Julia's Git > repo ? > (but it seemed abandoned when I last checked) > > > Best, > Joerg > >
