Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: >> I have assumed that there _are_ problems that must be solved with threads > > I'm not convinced. > > There are problems that *should* be solved with concurrency. > > There are, however, many different models for concurrency. Threads seem > to be a particularly poor one. However, the thread abstraction seemed > to map onto Unix much more readily than anything else. > > Microkernels, for example, are more amenable to the Actors/message > passing model. However, they initially performed very poorly when > emulating Unix API's. Recently, however, they seem to be competitive. > > Concurrency is the Achilles' heel of almost all of the current crop of > languages. I don't think Tcl, Python, Perl, or Ruby are going to > survive that weakness. >
occam ? Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
