On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Tim Bunce wrote:
> If you wanted to start a hundred threads in a language that has good
> support for async constructs you're almost certainly using the wrong
> approach. In the world of perl6 I expect threads to be used rarely and
> for specific unavoidably-bockin
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.
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'
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
