Re: Are Perl6 threads preemptive or cooperative?
[email protected] (Markus Peter) Fri, 25 Aug 2000 21:02:58 +0200
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| Message-ID | <10389428.3176226178@[192.168.1.6]> |
--On 25.08.2000 14:07 Uhr -0400 Dan Sugalski wrote: > Perl doesn't currently run on a system that doesn't have a reasonably > good threading library. Writing our own code would mean dedicating a few > programmer-months to do poorly what other folks have spent quite a few > programmer-years to do well. (Or at least less poorly... :) Writing an own threading library also forces you to use cooperative threading as on many system emulating preemptive threads without system support is rather hard or impossible (especially blocking I/O is an issue there on some systems). -- Markus Peter - SPiN GmbH [email protected]