On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Allison Randal <alli...@parrot.org> wrote: > On 03/07/2013 09:00 AM, Reini Urban wrote: >> >> if parrot throws away the ffi binding for no apparent reason, no single >> language >> besides rakudo will show interest. >> guaranteed. > > This branch only cares about Rakudo. > >> again technical concerns: >> our lexpad works, rakudos lexpad is broken with threads. > > Parrot's threads are broken anyway and slow, so throw them away.
Completely wrong. Parrot threads work very good and are amongst the fastest on the planet. I have no idea who told you this. They cannot compete with fibers (Felix), but with the fastest threaded languages, Go and Erlang. Maybe you start reading a bit on our new threads. > Look, the point here is to chuck old baggage, so we can focus on > *finishing* a good product for a single purpose. We don't get there by > clinging to every good idea anyone ever had for Parrot. Please do no harm. -- Reini Urban http://cpanel.net/ http://www.perl-compiler.org/ _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
