Threading Debate-- Where ??

2000-09-18 Thread John van V
I have personally agonized about the threading issue, basically w/o every writing a usable script in it. I would like to know where the archive is, its not really obvious, before comenting that we may need two cores, on with one w/o. cheers, john

Re: Threading Debate-- Where ??

2000-09-18 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 03:28 PM 9/18/00 +, John van V wrote: I have personally agonized about the threading issue, basically w/o every writing a usable script in it. I would like to know where the archive is, its not really obvious, before comenting that we may need two cores, on with one w/o. Well, you

Re: Perl Implementation Language

2000-09-18 Thread Tom Hughes
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for the language we implement perl in (and thus ultimately need to translate to the compiler-target language), I'm thinking of something like Chip's PIL. (Or PIL itself--I've not actually seen it) Is there any

Re: Accessing a variable's attributes (was Re: RFC 241 (v1) ...)

2000-09-18 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 04:04 PM 9/18/00 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 10:51:52AM -0400, John Porter wrote: I would think that if it could be done at all, it would only be in extension (formerly XS) code. Why? I don't want to go to C just to add a flag to a variable. That smacks of making

Re: Accessing a variable's attributes (was Re: RFC 241 (v1) ...)

2000-09-18 Thread John Porter
Simon Cozens wrote: (The deadline for collecting ideas passed two weeks ago. Why is this all still going on?) Because there are still many worthy ideas which have not surfaced yet. Which is the higher priority? -- John Porter We're building the house of the future together.

Re: Accessing a variable's attributes (was Re: RFC 241 (v1) ...)

2000-09-18 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 04:04:56PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 10:51:52AM -0400, John Porter wrote: I would think that if it could be done at all, it would only be in extension (formerly XS) code. Why? I don't want to go to C just to add a flag to a variable. That