On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Michael Stevens wrote: > On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 08:37:02PM +0000, Kieran Barry wrote: > > TCL is used because its multithreaded. Perl 6 is going to be > > multithreaded. It should be able to wipe TCL out. > > I've never actually understood the appeal of threads. Why do > people like them? > The concept of execution threads within a process makes it easy to share resources like database connections. As I understand it, that's it. The pre-forked model that Apache uses has a problem because it's tough to share resources. Incidentally, I think this is the reason servlets are used. Regards Kieran
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