Re: Re: Threads?

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.

Apache 1.x is always threadless except under windows. Apache 2.x is 
optionally threadless. IIRC, things like PalmOS and definitely any 
number of RTOS are threadless.

I think excluding that market is short-sighted.

Cheers,

Ben.

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