On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 20:51, Luke Palmer wrote; > Parrot is platform-independent, but that doesn't mean we can't > take advantage of platform-specific instructions to make it faster > on certain machines. Indeed, this is precisely what JIT is. > But a lock on every PMC is still pretty heavy for those non-x86 > platforms out there, and we should avoid it if we can.
So implement threading on architectures that don't support interrupt masking with completely user-space threading (ie, runloop round-robin) like Ruby does. *That* is available on *every* platform. -- Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. -- Alfred Hitchcock
