Re: RFC 86 (v1) IPC Mailboxes for Threads and Signals

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Re: RFC 86 (v1) IPC Mailboxes for Threads and Signals

#x27;re talking a generic communication pipe between things, we should overload the filehandle. It's a nice construct that provides an ordered, serialized, blockable, pollable communications channel with well-defined behavior and a comfortable set of primitives to operate on it.

Re: RFC 86 (v1) IPC Mailboxes for Threads and Signals

At 12:54 PM 8/11/00 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: > >>>>> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > DS> Nope. The code that accessses the array needs to support it. Different > DS> animal entirely. The ops don't actually need to k

Re: Are Perl6 threads preemptive or cooperative?

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Re: Are Perl6 threads preemptive or cooperative?

At 12:51 PM 8/25/00 -0500, David L. Nicol wrote: >Dan Sugalski wrote: > > > > At 02:49 AM 8/25/00 -0400, Steven W McDougall wrote: > > >Are Perl6 threads preemptive or cooperative? > > > > Perl 6 threads will use the native threading system on each platform. To

Re: Are Perl6 threads preemptive or cooperative?

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