Re: Re: Threads?

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 10:40:40AM -0700, Mark Hahn wrote:
> 
> "Ben Laurie" <[email protected]> wrote
> 
> > Ben Collins wrote:
> > > I can't see us
> > > doing prothon without threads.
> >
> > I'm curious to know why not?
> >
> 
> The biggest problem is that our garbage collector runs in a seperate thread
> from the application.  We could have the interpreter stop now and then and
> run the GC, but it's not in our current design.  It always just boils down
> to extra work of course.
> 
> How much of the "marketplace" is going to want to run threadless?  I can't
> imagine Apache running threadless for example.

I wonder if people would ever want to run prothon on a PalmOS device.

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