On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 03:37:23AM +0000, Nigel Sandever wrote: : On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 03:47:42 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Autrijus Tang) wrote: : > : > Oh well. At least the same code can be salvaged to make iThreads : : Please. No iThreads behaviour in Perl 6. : : Nobody uses them and whilst stable, the implementation is broken in so many way. : : But worse, the underlying semantics are completely and utterly wrong.
Are you confusing iThreads with pThreads? Or are you recommending we go back to the pThreads fiasco? >From what I've read, the trend in most modern implementations of concurrency is away from shared state by default, essentially because shared memory simply doesn't scale up well enough in hardware, and coordinating shared state is not terribly efficient without shared memory. If you are claiming that modern computer scientists are completely and utterly wrong in moving that direction, well, that's your privilege. But you should be prepared for a little pushback on that subject, especially as you are merely badmouthing something without goodmouthing something else in it's place. Larry
