Re: our :shared $foo / iThreads

[Dan Sugalski]

At 10:43 AM 5/4/2001 -0400, Benjamin Sugars wrote:
>On Fri, 4 May 2001, Alan Burlison wrote:
>
> > This is distinctly non-trivial.
>
>And ultimately fruitless too, I fear.  Which is why the programmer will
>still need to guard entry into critical sections.
>
>The thing that I'm worried about is that with a lot of the perl runtime
>dependent on external libc's and the like, one doesn't even know where the
>critical sections are, at least not in a cross-platform sense.

Yup. Perl 5 is busted so many ways it's not even funny. The amazing thing 
is how well it works anyway.

The one nice thing about this flaring up again is I'm taking notes about 
the stuff we don't want to do for perl 6, and the things we're going to 
want to provide for extensions so they can do stuff portably.

                                        Dan

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