Re: perl IS an event loop (was Re: Speaking of signals...)

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

> Some of this ground does need to be revisited, since perl 6 isn't going to 
> be perl 5, and the tradeoffs are going to be different. (I'm still not sure 
> that checking for pending events every opcode is the way to go, either. 
> Piggybacking on the end of statement cleanup opcode might be a better 
> place, depending on how frequently that happens)

That might also be a more logical place: then we could say that a statement
is the 'atomic' unit.  Yes, some statements take longer than others.  Tough.

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