Re: Are Perl6 threads preemptive or cooperative?

[email protected] (Bryan C . Warnock) Fri, 25 Aug 2000 22:36:14 -0400
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.flow
Message-ID <00082522383201.00767@CC789569-A>
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, David L. Nicol wrote:

> That's what I was suggesting.  And if you say $a = 1 + foo() you have
> to give up your mutex on $a before calling foo().  So the programmer
> would have to work these things out with the subroutines:

I would think that you'd have already called foo() by the time you
locked $a. 

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