Re: threads?

2010-10-21 Thread Aaron Sherman
I've done quite a lot of concurrent programming over the past 23ish years, from the implementation of a parallelized version of CLIPS back in the late 80s to many C, Perl, and Python projects involving everything from shared memory to process pooling to every permutation of hard and soft thread

Re: threads?

2010-10-21 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Damian Conway dam...@conway.org wrote: Perhaps we need to think more Perlishly and reframe the entire question. Not: What threading model do we need?, but: What kinds of non-sequential programming tasks do we want to make easy...and how would we like to be

Re: threads?

2010-10-21 Thread Darren Duncan
Aaron Sherman wrote: On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Damian Conway dam...@conway.org wrote: Perhaps we need to think more Perlishly and reframe the entire question. Not: What threading model do we need?, but: What kinds of non-sequential programming tasks do we want to make easy...and how

Tweaking junctions

2010-10-21 Thread Damian Conway
I've been thinking about junctions, and I believe we may need a small tweak to (at least) the jargon in one part of the specification. Specificially, in S32-setting-library_Containers.pod, we currently have: =item !eigenstates method !eigenstates (Junction $j: -- Parcel)