Re: Are Perl6 threads preemptive or cooperative?

[email protected] (Markus Peter) Sat, 26 Aug 2000 02:18:47 +0200
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.flow
Message-ID <11529336.3176245127@[192.168.1.6]>
--On 25.08.2000 20:02 Uhr -0400 Steven W McDougall wrote:

> Others have pointed out that code inside sub-expressions and blocks
> could also assign to our variables. This is true, but it isn't our
> problem. As long as each assignment is carried out correctly by the
> interpreter, then each variable always has a valid value, computed
> from other valid values.

Depends on who 'our' is, if you're an internals guy you need not care, 
that's true, but as a user of the language you care about how much sync-ing 
you have to do yourself in your perl code - the preemptive vs. cooperative 
discussion is there valid as well though it would probably be good to 
seperate these discussions :-)

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Markus Peter - SPiN GmbH
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