I'd be curious to hear why you think it was "slapdash"ed in. The more I dig into the JVM, the more I realize that very little of its engineering is anything but precise and deliberate.
That said, I think the engineers at Sun would love to see alternate threading implementations contributed by the community, possibly under control of a -XX flag to decide which threading model to use, perhaps as a new Innovator's Challenge project. Ted Neward Java, .NET, XML Services Consulting, Teaching, Speaking, Writing http://www.tedneward.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:jvm- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim White > Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 12:54 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [jvm-l] Re: Emulating interruptible threads on the JVM > > > John Rose wrote: > > > ... > > Bottom line: I think Java is stuck with explicit polling for > > interrupts. > > It wouldn't be if we'd gotten continuations instead of the slapdash > mashing of a native thread model into the JVM. > > http://ifcx.org/wiki/Continuations.html > > Now that Java is OSS, the next time someone does something like INRIA's > Migratory Threads implementation it'll wind up in some flavor of the > OpenJDK so the rest of us can use it. > > Jim > > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.12/1372 - Release Date: > 4/10/2008 5:36 PM > No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.12/1374 - Release Date: 4/11/2008 4:59 PM --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
