Re: v8 first impressions

On 3-Sep-08, at 9:57 AM, Eliot Miranda wrote:

> Thread model: the standard, multi-threaded with only one active  
> thread at a time, i.e. the standard combination of a green thread VM  
> architecture with native threads, as seen in Strongtalk.  Different  
> threads must use a lock on the entire VM to use it.  There is a  
> preemptive scheduler to share the VM between threads waiting on the  
> lock.

One thing to note here is that the semantics of Javascript don't  
include concurrency at all. Javascript code only runs in response to  
sequential events generated from outside the Javascript context, so it  
makes perfect sense for V8 to be implemented this way.

Colin

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