On 2010-Oct-12, at 10:22, Damian Conway wrote:
> What we really need is some anecdotal evidence from folks who are actually
> using threading in real-world situations (in *any* languages). What has worked
> in practice? What has worked well? What was painful? What was error-prone?
> And for which
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 02:31:26PM +0200, Carl M?sak wrote:
> Ben (>):
> > If perl6 can statically (at compile time) analyse subroutines and
> > methods and determine if they're reentrant, then it could
> > automatically use the lightest weight threads when it knows that the
> > entry sub won't hav
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 04:00:02AM +0200, Leon Timmermans wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Tim Bunce wrote:
> > So I'd like to use this sub-thread to try to identify when lessons we
> > can learn from ithreads. My initial thoughts are:
> >
> > - Don't clone a live interpreter.
> > Sta
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 07:22:33AM -0700, Damian Conway wrote:
> Leon Timmermans wrote:
>
> > For the love of $DEITY, let's please not repeat ithreads!
>
> $AMEN!
>
> Backwards compatibility is not the major design criterion for Perl 6,
> so there's no need to recapitulate our own phylogeny here
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:43:44PM +0200, Leon Timmermans wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Damian Conway wrote:
> > The problem is: while most people can agree on what have proved to be
> > unsatisfactory threading models, not many people can seem to agree on
> > what would constititute a
I haven't enough smarts to see if this is at all what you're looking for
but is used some of the same terms:
http://dpj.cs.uiuc.edu/DPJ/Home.html?cid=nl_ddjupdate_2010-10-12_html
Welcome to the home page for the Deterministic Parallel Java (DPJ) project
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-C
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 03:42:00PM +0200, Leon Timmermans wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Ben Goldberg
> wrote:
> > If thread-unsafe subroutines are called, then something like ithreads
> > might be used.
>
> For the love of $DEITY, let's please not repeat ithreads!
It's worth rememb
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 07:22:33AM -0700, Damian Conway wrote:
>
> What we really need is some anecdotal evidence from folks who are actually
> using threading in real-world situations (in *any* languages). What has worked
> in practice? What has worked well? What was painful? What was error-prone
