On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 10:00, Luke Palmer wrote:
> Aaron Sherman writes:
> > Well, more to the point, autothreading of junctions will hit the wall of
> > Parrot duping the interpreter. That's probably not something you want to
> > suffer just to resolve a junction, is it?
>
> What? Why will it do that?
Why? Well, you can read what Dan wrote, 'cause I'm sure not going to
pretend I'm enough of a threads programmer to have an educated opinion:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/perl.perl6.internals/msg/18b86bff49cac5a0?dmode=source
We'd decided that each thread has its own interpreter. Parrot
doesn't get any lighter-weight than an interpreter, since trying
to have multiple threads of control share an interpreter seems
to be a good way to die a horrible death.
-Dan Sugalski / 14 Apr 2005
I'm not saying it's a good or bad thing, but people on THIS list seem to
keep pretending that threading will be light-weight, and unless I'm
misunderstanding what "each thread has its own interpreter" means (and
Dan confirmed it in pretty clear terms when I asked), that's simply not
the case.
Dan's terse followup is at:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/perl.perl6.internals/msg/e1885fc6da8aa068?dmode=source&hl=en
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Aaron Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Senior Systems Engineer and Toolsmith
"It's the sound of a satellite saying, 'get me down!'" -Shriekback
