Perl <-> OS API target

>>>>> "AB" == Alan Burlison <[email protected]> writes:

AB> Writing your own threading library as part of perl6 is a non-starter,
AB> because to do so requires cooperation from and intimate knowledge of the
AB> OS - for example the way threding is implemented on Linux and Solaris
AB> are radically different.  That's why the POSIX threads library is there
AB> - to make such platform dependent implementation mechanisms invisible to
AB> applications.

Are you suggesting that POSIX threads be THE porting target?

Or should we have another layer (yeah, I know another speed loss) that
would be able to directly target the native threads library/api.

The POSIX threads API would be the initial port but then we might be
able to get some speed ups by going for the native implementation?

<chaim>
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