Re: Threading in Parrot vs Perl

2005-04-28 Thread Sam Vilain
Rod Adams wrote: I would be dismayed if autothreading used threads to accomplish it's goals. Simple iteration in a single interpreter should be more than sufficient. For sure. No point in doing 10_000 cycles to set up a scratch area for a single boolean test that might take 10 cycles. A software

Re: Threading in Parrot vs Perl

2005-04-28 Thread Uri Guttman
> "RA" == Rod Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RA> I would be dismayed if autothreading used threads to accomplish it's RA> goals. Simple iteration in a single interpreter should be more than RA> sufficient. how autothreading is implemented is distinct from the language feature. a simp

Re: Threading in Parrot vs Perl

2005-04-28 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 13:55, Rod Adams wrote: > I would be dismayed if autothreading used threads to accomplish it's > goals. Simple iteration in a single interpreter should be more than > sufficient. Sorry, I misunderstood. Thanks for the clarification. -- Aaron Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> S

Re: Threading in Parrot vs Perl

2005-04-28 Thread Rod Adams
Aaron Sherman wrote: On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 10:00, Luke Palmer wrote: Aaron Sherman writes: Well, more to the point, autothreading of junctions will hit the wall of Parrot duping the interpreter. That's probably not something you want to suffer just to resolve a junction, is it? Wh

Re: Threading in Parrot vs Perl

2005-04-28 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 12:46:53PM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 10:00, Luke Palmer wrote: > > Aaron Sherman writes: > > > > Well, more to the point, autothreading of junctions will hit the wall of > > > Parrot duping the interpreter. That's probably not something you want to