Re: Are Perl6 threads preemptive or cooperative?

[Markus Peter]

--On 25.08.2000 14:07 Uhr -0400 Dan Sugalski wrote:

> Perl doesn't currently run on a system that doesn't have a reasonably
> good threading library. Writing our own code would mean dedicating a few
> programmer-months to do poorly what other folks have spent quite a few
> programmer-years to do well. (Or at least less poorly... :)

Writing an own threading library also forces you to use cooperative 
threading as on many system emulating preemptive threads without system 
support is rather hard or impossible (especially blocking I/O is an issue 
there on some systems).

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Markus Peter - SPiN GmbH
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