Re: Ruby Fibers (was: threads?)

2010-11-07 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:22 AM, B. Estrade wrote: > Pardon my ignorance, but are continuations the same thing as > co-routines, or is it more primitive than that? Continuations are not the same thing as coroutines, although they can be used to implement coroutines - in fact, continuations can b

Re: Ruby Fibers (was: threads?)

2010-11-07 Thread Ben Goldberg
On Oct 15, 9:57 am, markjr...@gmail.com ("Mark J. Reed") wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Leon Timmermans wrote: > > Continuations and fibers are incredibly useful and should be easy to > > implement on parrot/rakudo but they aren't really concurrency. They're > > a solution to a differen

Re: Ruby Fibers

2010-10-16 Thread Brandon S Allbery KF8NH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/15/10 10:22 , B. Estrade wrote: > Pardon my ignorance, but are continuations the same thing as > co-routines, or is it more primitive than that? Also, doesn't this > really just allow context switching outside of the knowledge of a > kernel thre

Re: Ruby Fibers (was: threads?)

2010-10-16 Thread B. Estrade
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 09:57:26AM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Leon Timmermans wrote: > > Continuations and fibers are incredibly useful and should be easy to > > implement on parrot/rakudo but they aren't really concurrency. They're > > a solution to a different

Re: Ruby Fibers (was: threads?)

2010-10-15 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 01:42:06PM +0200, Leon Timmermans wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:20 AM, Tim Bunce wrote: > > I've not used them, but Ruby 1.9 Fibers (continuations) and the > > EventMachine Reactor pattern seem interesting. > > Continuations and fibers are incredibly useful and should

Re: Ruby Fibers (was: threads?)

2010-10-15 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Leon Timmermans wrote: > Continuations and fibers are incredibly useful and should be easy to > implement on parrot/rakudo but they aren't really concurrency. They're > a solution to a different problem. I would argue that concurrency isn't a problem to solve; it'

Re: Ruby Fibers (was: threads?)

2010-10-15 Thread Leon Timmermans
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:20 AM, Tim Bunce wrote: > I've not used them, but Ruby 1.9 Fibers (continuations) and the > EventMachine Reactor pattern seem interesting. Continuations and fibers are incredibly useful and should be easy to implement on parrot/rakudo but they aren't really concurrency.