Re: [perl #36250] [TODO] STM threading design

2005-06-11 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 02:23:10PM -0700, Chip Salzenberg wrote: : STM is Software Transactional Memory. It's wicked cool. Really. : Google it. You'll be glad you did. I'm particularly interested by the scalability of http://www.cambridge.intel-research.net/~rennals/faststm.html (There's

[perl #36250] [TODO] STM threading design

2005-06-11 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Chip Salzenberg # Please include the string: [perl #36250] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=36250 > Do detailed design & documentation on STM-based threading system. STM is Software T

Re: Threading design

2003-12-30 Thread Uri Guttman
> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DS> I'm going to be really grumpy here, though it's not directed at DS> Gordon. What *I* wish is that people who've not had any experience DS> trying to build threaded interpreters for languages with data as DS> heavyweight as perl's w

Re: Threading design

2003-12-30 Thread Jeff Clites
On Dec 30, 2003, at 11:18 AM, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 11:27 AM -0500 12/30/03, Gordon Henriksen wrote: I wish the threading design for parrot would look more toward successful, performant multithreaded systems, I'm going to be really grumpy here, though it's not directed at Gordon. Wha

Re: Threading design

2003-12-30 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 11:27 AM -0500 12/30/03, Gordon Henriksen wrote: I wish the threading design for parrot would look more toward successful, performant multithreaded systems, I'm going to be really grumpy here, though it's not directed at Gordon. What *I* wish is that people who've not had

Threading design

2003-12-30 Thread Gordon Henriksen
I wish the threading design for parrot would look more toward successful, performant multithreaded systems, rather than setting up new design experiments based upon the results of failed experiments (in particular, all forms of Perl 5 threading). I think that environment-cloning and fine