How does this look different from an inter-thread visible array
treated as a queue?
Thread A
push(@workqueue, $val)
Thread B
$val = pop(@workqueue)
Where accessing the global variable is guaranteed by perl to be atomic.
(i.e. Do we need another construct?)
<chaim>
>>>>> "PRL" == Perl6 RFC Librarian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PRL> This and other RFCs are available on the web at
PRL> http://dev.perl.org/rfc/
PRL> =head1 TITLE
PRL> IPC Mailboxes for Threads and Signals
PRL> =head1 VERSION
PRL> Maintainer: Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
PRL> Date: 09 Aug 2000
PRL> Version: 1
PRL> Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PRL> Number: 86
PRL> =head1 ABSTRACT
PRL> An IPC mailbox is a simple way for threads (or possibly processes) to
PRL> communicate without the mess of directly dealing with
PRL> semaphores/mutexes/queues.
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