Re: Are Perl6 threads preemptive or cooperative?

2000-08-27 Thread Steven W McDougall
That a user my need to have two or more variables in sync for proper operation. And cooperative threads don't address that issue. Cooperative only helps _perhaps_ with perl not needing to protrect its own structures. We are in agreement. I was specifically addressing the problem of

Re: Threads and run time/compile time

2000-08-27 Thread Chaim Frenkel
I wish I knew why you are discussing in -internals issue on this list. You should be specifying behaviour not how it is implemented. A mention of implementation is reasonable but _don't_ spend too much time. If Larry wants it. -internals will give it to him. Anyway, please recall that because of