Re: Are Perl6 threads preemptive or cooperative?

[email protected] (Steven W McDougall) Sun, 27 Aug 2000 19:58:33 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.flow
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> That a user my need to have two or more variables in sync for proper
> operation. And cooperative threads don't address that issue.

> Cooperative only helps _perhaps_ with perl not needing to protrect its
> own structures.

We are in agreement.

I was specifically addressing the problem of protecting internal
interpreter data structures, and specifically ignoring the problem of
synchronizing user access to data.


- SWM