Re: thread vs signal

2001-09-29 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 09:51 AM 9/29/2001 -0400, Michael Maraist wrote: > > > > I generally divide signals into two groups: > > > > *) Messages from outside (i.e. SIGHUP) > > *) Indicators of Horrific Failure (i.e. SIGBUS) > > > > Generally speaking, parrot should probably just up and die for the first > > type,

memory allocation paper (Courtesy of Alan)

2001-09-29 Thread Dan Sugalski
Ask has found us a spot for the paper Alan was speaking of. http://dev.perl.org/perl6/talks/ http://www.parrotcode.org/talks/ It's pretty interesting on first skim. Dan --"it's like this"--- Dan Sugals

[patch] chopn Sx Ix et. al.

2001-09-29 Thread Alex Gough
It seems odd to have the chopn_s_ic and not a chopn_s_i op, this patch adds this, and simillar ops (+ tests!) for shr and shl. I don't know if these count as new features or not... Also, string_chopn was not checking for OOB values for n, this is fixed and the (currenlty skipped) jump test in basi

Re: thread vs signal

2001-09-29 Thread Michael Maraist
> > I generally divide signals into two groups: > > *) Messages from outside (i.e. SIGHUP) > *) Indicators of Horrific Failure (i.e. SIGBUS) > > Generally speaking, parrot should probably just up and die for the first > type, and turn the second into events. I don't know. SIGHUP is useful to

RE: SV: Parrot multithreading?

2001-09-29 Thread Michael Maraist
> > or have entered a muteX, > > If they're holding a mutex over a function call without a > _really_ good reason, it's their own fault. General perl6 code is not going to be able to prevent someone from calling code that in-tern calls XS-code. Heck, most of what you do in perl involves some sor

RE: Solaris problems with trans.t

2001-09-29 Thread Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs
Ok, I've added (NV) to all of the integer trans ops arguments. See if that helps. -Original Message- From: Michael G Schwern To: Buggs Cc: Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs; '[EMAIL PROTECTED] ' Sent: 9/28/2001 10:39 PM Subject: Re: Solaris problems with trans.t On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 05:22:41AM