Several weeks ago there was this post:
http://www.evanmiller.org/why-im-learning-perl-6.html
That gave this example of perl6 N:M threads in action:
use v6.d.PREVIEW;
my $channel = Channel.new;
my @ten_tasks = (^10).map: {
start {
my $thread = $*THREAD.id;
await $channel;
say "HOLY MOLEY SOMEONE STOLE MY THREAD" if $thread != $*THREAD.id;
}
}
$channel.send("Ring ring") for ^10;
$channel.close;
await @ten_tasks;
It demonstrates that perl6 will not tie up a thread in the thread pool just
sitting around waiting (I think).
The example is intended to be condensed without any surplus code.
So my question is, is the $channel.close required? Leave it out and the
code still seems to work. Am I missing some subtle point?
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