On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Tim Bunce tim.bu...@pobox.com wrote:
If you wanted to start a hundred threads in a language that has good
support for async constructs you're almost certainly using the wrong
approach. In the world of perl6 I expect threads to be used rarely and
for specific
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:20 AM, Tim Bunce tim.bu...@pobox.com wrote:
I've not used them, but Ruby 1.9 Fibers (continuations) and the
EventMachine Reactor pattern seem interesting.
Continuations and fibers are incredibly useful and should be easy to
implement on parrot/rakudo but they aren't
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Leon Timmermans faw...@gmail.com wrote:
Continuations and fibers are incredibly useful and should be easy to
implement on parrot/rakudo but they aren't really concurrency. They're
a solution to a different problem.
I would argue that concurrency isn't a problem
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 01:42:06PM +0200, Leon Timmermans wrote:
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:20 AM, Tim Bunce tim.bu...@pobox.com wrote:
I've not used them, but Ruby 1.9 Fibers (continuations) and the
EventMachine Reactor pattern seem interesting.
Continuations and fibers are incredibly
