Re: our :shared $foo / iThreads

[Benjamin Sugars]

On Fri, 4 May 2001, Alan Burlison wrote:

> We might actually be better expending effort in providing a proper event
> loop in perl - this is more likely to be achievable within the strictures of
> the existing perl5 implementation, and if we are going to end up locking
> everything anyway, it may not end up being any slower.

Agreed.  There are many other things with a higher utility/work ratio.

This is not meant to denigrate the hard work that Artur is doing.  I just
don't see ever being able to access any more than a subset of Perl from
threaded perl.  I hope I'm wrong.

Cheers,
-Ben

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