Re: Do threads support SMP?

On 20 Aug 2000, Chaim Frenkel wrote:

> SWM> Does Perl6 support Symmetric MultiProcessing (SMP)?

Perl5 does - see 'fork'.  I'm guessing that Perl6 will have at
least that much support.

> SWM> This is a *huge* issue. It affects everything else that we do with
> SWM> threads. 

Most operating system's thread implementations treat threads like
processes - they get scheduled independently on whatever CPUs are
available.  Some OSs do a better job than others, but there's nothing Perl
can do about that.

So, this is a pretty small issue for us.

-sam