Hi Easco, On Aug 13, 2010, at 8:15 AM, easco wrote: > Instead I was curious to know if there was "a plan" for implementing Fibers > and if so, I was curious to know what operating system technology they would > be built on. It appears that the problem has not been looked at, in-depth, > yet and I am satisfied with that. Nor does it appear that there is any OS > level technology that would particularly support the creation of Fibers (i.e. > Mac OS X doesn't really have any built-in support for cooperatively scheduled > multitasking... outside of deprecated technologies like the Carbon Thread > Manager and makecontext/swapcontext).
Actually, I'm confused by that statement. My understanding is that cooperatively scheduled threads is a just a subset of the system-scheduled model. In particular, I'm pretty sure you can emulate them on top of GCD using semaphores. Should I explain further, or did you already consider that and discover it was unworkable? -- Ernie P. _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
