Re: Are Perl6 threads preemptive or cooperative?

[Markus Peter]

--On 25.08.2000 2:49 Uhr -0400 Steven W McDougall wrote:

> Now here's the trade off
>
>                performance    implementation
> preemptive    high            hard
> cooperative   low             easy

That's by far not that easy. Actually I've often seen cooperative threading
implemented with a higher "performance" (meaning speed) than preemptive, but
cooperative is simply not as reliable as preemptive threading....

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Markus Peter - SPiN GmbH
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