On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 09:13:23PM +0800, Gunther Birznieks wrote: > Yes, but what does this have to do with 5.6.1? Are you saying you can't > write thread-safe code that is also backwards compatible with 5.5?
of course not. but if we need threads anyway (do we?) or in most of the cases, does there need to be support for 5.5 ? another question is wether the advantages you get through concurrency are bigger than disadvantages of the needed upgrade. early perls have all the needed features. you can emulate threads with processes and tie'd data structures. but do we really have the time to implement all that ? torvald > > At 06:53 PM 1/7/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 09:20:04AM +0800, Gunther Birznieks wrote: > > > You only need these for server based systems. You don't need this for > > every > > > component section of p5ee. > > > >why not? if the libraries are used in a threaded environment they need to > >be thread safe. so if you have just a single important threaded application > >your libraries will have to support it. you can build layers around > >non-thread-safe libs but this is a lot of work and isnt possible in every > >case. > > > >it's not about a specific thread model. but it should get more attention > >and should be tought of when designing. > > > >torvald > > > > > > > > At 08:23 AM 1/5/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 12:22:56PM -0500, Stephen Adkins wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Based on this, are there still strong advocates for increasing the > > > > > *minimum* supported version of Perl from 5.5.3 to 5.6.1? > > > > > Are attributes (and incomplete Unicode support) worth leaving the > > > > > 5.5.x world behind? > > > > > > > > > > > > >you will have to support threads or at least provide thread-safe > > libraries. > > > >that includes using the threading model (ithreads as it looks). > > > > > > > >it seems like concurrency and distributed system aspects dont get the > > > >attention that they need, at least to me. > > > > > > > > > > > >torvald > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Gunther Birznieks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > eXtropia - The Open Web Technology Company > > > http://www.eXtropia.com/ > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Gunther Birznieks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > eXtropia - The Open Web Technology Company > http://www.eXtropia.com/ >
