Re: our :shared $foo / iThreads

[Gurusamy Sarathy]

On Thu, 03 May 2001 09:48:45 PDT, Doug MacEachern wrote:
>when $foo is copied by perl_clone() it gets a pointer (not copied) to
>the solar_t returned by solar_new.  FETCH and STORE then use the
>solar_t.lock to serialize access to the solar variable.  what i have works
>ok for simple scalars, but dealing with complex structures is, well,
>complex.  each value of a hash and array would need to be tied, if those
>values are hashes or arrays,

Or accessed through TIEHASH and TIEARRAY.

>their values need to be tied, and so on.

Or ensure that only solar values are stored within them.  The situation
here is similar to that of references.

>so yes, there are performance problems.  i have not investigated howto
>implement solar variables in the core.  however, that approach would need
>to take special care not to add overhead to the core for all things
>non-solar.

Very true.


Sarathy
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