Re: our :shared $foo / iThreads

[Gurusamy Sarathy]

On Fri, 04 May 2001 15:55:38 BST, 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.

I don't know how you ended up concluding "we are going to end up locking
everything anyway", but this isn't true.  USE_ITHREADS does very little
locking currently, and I don't think that would be a good thing to
change.

Note that the "access to shared data through magic" idea should localize
the locking to just the accessor functions.


Sarathy
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