Re: Re: Threads?

Ben Collins wrote:

> 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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