Sorry I meant has *no *GIL.

Am Freitag, 20. Juni 2014 22:01:57 UTC+2 schrieb Tobias Knopp:
>
> No, julia has to GIL. It has segfault if you try to call functions from 
> different threads ;-)
>
> Am Freitag, 20. Juni 2014 21:55:08 UTC+2 schrieb Aerlinger:
>>
>> Julia in its present implementation uses a global-interpreter lock much 
>> like most other dynamic programming languages, correct?
>>
>> On Friday, June 20, 2014 10:51:17 AM UTC-4, Stefan Karpinski wrote:
>>>
>>> For concurrent I/O, green threads are far more scalable than using 
>>> kernel threads. For concurrent computation, green threads don't buy you 
>>> anything, but exposing kernel threads directly as in C++ or Java forces all 
>>> library authors to become experts on concurrency since they have to make 
>>> sure all of their code is thread-safe, at the very least. Either that or 
>>> everyone has to worry about which libraries than can or can't use in 
>>> concurrent code. It rapidly becomes a mess. Our current approach to 
>>> concurrent computation is a shared-nothing multi-process model that also 
>>> works across machines. 
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 5:57 AM, Tobias Knopp <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think the answer to this question is not tight to Julia. Both models 
>>>> have advantagous and they are actually not comparable 1 to 1.
>>>>
>>>> One simple reason why Julia currently has no threads is that libjulia 
>>>> is not thread safe. I am experimenting in changing this (see 
>>>> https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/6741) but it is far from clear 
>>>> if this will be feasible in the end.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Tobi
>>>>
>>>> Am Freitag, 20. Juni 2014 11:32:11 UTC+2 schrieb Bienlein:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd like to ask why Julia does not have a conventional thread model à 
>>>>> la Java, C++, etc. but is based on couroutines. Not that I would 
>>>>> criticise 
>>>>> this. I would just like to know in what way the use case of Julia 
>>>>> promotes 
>>>>> couroutines simply out of interest, because it is not obvious to me.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks, Bienlein
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>

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