Re: RFC 178 (v1) Lightweight Threads

2000-09-03 Thread Steven W McDougall
> There is a fundemental issue on how values are passed between > threads. Does the value leave one thread and enter the other or are > they shared. > The idea tossed around -internals was that a value that crosses a thread > boundary would have a wrapper/proxy attached to handle the mediation.

Re: RFC 130 (v4) Transaction-enabled variables for Perl6

2000-09-03 Thread dLux
| Transactions are obviously going to be expensive and complicated, | which | is why I suggested implementing them outside the core: [...] | That's not quite sufficient for full transactions either. We | should also allow | user code to replace the assignment op in the virtual machi

libcrypt and the crypt builtin

2000-09-03 Thread Russ Allbery
This message on perl5-porters brought an idea to mind: Paul Marquess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From: Marc Lehmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Actually, the perl binary links against waay too many libraries. As a >> rule of thumb, the perl binary is linked against all libraries any >> exte