--- Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:At 8:13 PM +0200 3/31/03, Matthijs van Duin wrote: >On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 07:45:30AM -0800, Austin Hastings wrote: >>I've been thinking about closures, continuations, and coroutines, and >>one of the interfering points has been threads. >> >>What's the P6 thread model going to be? >> >>As I see it, parrot gives us the opportunity to implement preemptive >>threading at the VM level, even if it's not available via the OS. > >I think we should consider cooperative threading, implemented using >continuations. Yielding to another thread would automatically >happen when a thread blocks, or upon explicit request by the >programmer. > >It has many advantages:
And one disadvantage:
Dan doesn't like it. :)
Well, there are actually a lot of disadvantages, but that's the only important one, so it's probably not worth much thought over alternate threading schemes for Parrot at least--it's going with an OS-level preemptive threading model.
No, this isn't negotiable.
More information please.
There isn't any, particularly. We're doing preemptive threads. It isn't up for negotiation. This is one of the few things where I truly don't care what people's opinions on the matter are.
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