On Tuesday 02 August 2011 00:43:57 BGB wrote:
On 8/1/2011 3:24 PM, Simon Forman wrote:
On 7/27/11, Chris Warburtonchriswa...@googlemail.com wrote:
snip
(maybe relevant but no really to comment).
Another reason I would argue against something like types based on
Physics is that Physics
On Wednesday 27 July 2011 20:54:48 David Barbour wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Chris Warburton
chriswa...@googlemail.com
wrote:
Locality: Mentioned in passing for relativity, but locality is a very
useful property that holds for most Physics: stuff happens because of
On 8/3/2011 7:32 AM, Chris Warburton wrote:
On Tuesday 02 August 2011 00:43:57 BGB wrote:
On 8/1/2011 3:24 PM, Simon Forman wrote:
On 7/27/11, Chris Warburtonchriswa...@googlemail.com wrote:
snip
(maybe relevant but no really to comment).
Another reason I would argue against something
sorry, just trying to clarify a few points...
On 8/3/2011 9:57 AM, BGB wrote:
in my own language, there is the async modifier which can
(theoretically) be used for a lot of this:
async function foo(x, y) { ... }
where calls to foo implicitly create their own thread.
async bar(x, 3);
would
On 3 August 2011 21:04, BGB cr88...@gmail.com wrote:
sorry, just trying to clarify a few points...
On 8/3/2011 9:57 AM, BGB wrote:
in my own language, there is the async modifier which can
(theoretically) be used for a lot of this:
async function foo(x, y) { ... }
where calls to foo
On 8/3/2011 1:04 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
On 3 August 2011 21:04, BGBcr88...@gmail.com wrote:
sorry, just trying to clarify a few points...
...
sadly, the async modifier was used in the first incarnation of BGBScript
(2004-2006), but was never fully reimplemented when the language was
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:57 AM, BGB cr88...@gmail.com wrote:
maybe some good alternative is needed to the traditional threading and
locks model so prevalent in modern mainstream languages.
[...]
now whether any of this could make threading easier to use... I really have
little idea...
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Igor Stasenko siguc...@gmail.com wrote:
it is pointless to spawn more than hardware can do, because these threads
will just wait own turn to claim one of free cores and meanwhile just
consume resources
I agree, with exceptions:
* blocking FFI calls
* FFI that
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Chris Warburton
chriswa...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Tuesday 02 August 2011 00:43:57 BGB wrote:
On 8/1/2011 3:24 PM, Simon Forman wrote:
On 7/27/11, Chris Warburtonchriswa...@googlemail.com wrote:
snip
(maybe relevant but no really to comment).
Another
