Re: AIO and threads - my prejudices

2001-01-20 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:44:55PM +, Alan Burlison wrote: > The downside is that we would restrict perl6 to only those platform that > supported threads. I'm not sure how much of a restriction this would > turn out to be in practice - how many current perl platforms don't have > threads? As

Re: AIO and threads - my prejudices

2001-01-10 Thread Branden
Alan Burlison wrote: > Hmm. I've been half-following the async IO and signals thread in > perl6-internals. The first thing I would say is that if you think there > are portability problems with threads and signals, wait until you get to > play with cross-platform AIO. General received wisdom s