Re: Ideas for a "Object-Belongs-to-Thread" threading model

2010-05-12 Thread Daniel Ruoso
BrowserUK wrote: > > -there are the interpreter processes. > > Inventing (overloaded) terminology will just create confusion. Very > > unhelpful in a context that suffers more than its fair share already. Okay, I should probably call them "Actors" to use a more precise terminology - since this

Second Version of Ideas for a "Object-Belongs-to-Thread" threading model

2010-05-12 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Ter, 2010-05-11 às 21:45 -0300, Daniel Ruoso escreveu: > The threading model topic still needs lots of thinking, so I decided to > try out some ideas. After BrowserUK feedback and some more reading (including http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?MessagePassingConcurrency ) and links from there on, I deci

Third and simplified version of Ideas for a "Object-Belongs-to-Thread" threading model

2010-05-12 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Ter, 2010-05-11 às 21:45 -0300, Daniel Ruoso escreveu: > he threading model topic still needs lots of thinking, so I decided to > try out some ideas. After I sent the second version, I just realized I could make it simpler by just assuming "one OS thread per Coroutine Group"... so here goes the

Re: Second Version of Ideas for a "Object-Belongs-to-Thread" threading model

2010-05-12 Thread B. Estrade
I might have some more to say about any threading model later, but for now I wanted to make everyone aware of a scripting language that is "truly" multi-threaded - you may want to check it out. Some of it's syntax is Perlish, whereas some is not - the point is that it is supposed to scale on SMP ma

Re: Ideas for a "Object-Belongs-to-Thread" threading model

2010-05-12 Thread Dave Whipp
Daniel Ruoso wrote: Hi, The threading model topic still needs lots of thinking, so I decided to try out some ideas. Every concurrency model has its advantages and drawbacks, I've been wondering about this ideas for a while now and I think I finally have a sketch. My primary concerns were: 1 -

Re: Ideas for a "Object-Belongs-to-Thread" threading model

2010-05-12 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qua, 2010-05-12 às 10:12 -0700, Dave Whipp escreveu: > Before discussing the implementation, I think it's worth while > stating > what it is that you are attempting to abstract. For example, is the > abstraction intended for a mapping down to a GPU (e.g. OpenCL) with a > hierarchical address

Fwd: Ideas for a "Object-Belongs-to-Thread" threading model

2010-05-12 Thread Alex Elsayed
Forgot to send this to the list. -- Forwarded message -- From: Alex Elsayed Date: Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:55 PM Subject: Re: Ideas for a "Object-Belongs-to-Thread" threading model To: Daniel Ruoso You may find interesting a paper that was (at one point) listed in the /topic of #

Re: Ideas for a "Object-Belongs-to-Thread" threading model

2010-05-12 Thread Matthew Wilson
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Alex Elsayed wrote: > Forgot to send this to the list. > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Alex Elsayed ... > It's also CPS based, which fits pretty well. > Here's another, one that might fit more readily with perlesque/CLR: Actors that Unify T