Time to reconsider m:n or green threading options?

2008-06-25 Thread Jim Baker
[just joined the mailing list and I don't have the mail-fu to connect this up to the original thread] I'm quite confident that in Jython, we don't want such full-blown green threads. One-shot continuations with bare-metal semantics that we can schedule exactly the way we want would work for us. Th

Re: Value Types for Java

2008-06-25 Thread Ben Hutchison
Kenneth Russell wrote: > I would be concerned about the semantic change of > pass-by-value and what that would mean for the easy readability and > understanding of Java source code I would point to the CLR as a successful example here. Value types and references types mingle fairly painlessly i

Re: Value Types for Java

2008-06-25 Thread Ben Hutchison
Miles Sabin wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Ben Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The example case I have in mind is an interaction between a Java >> process and a 3D graphics driver. Eg a Java process would be >> writing/updating triangle data in the buffer, and the graphics d