Re: Are Perl6 threads preemptive or cooperative?

[Dan Sugalski]

At 02:49 AM 8/25/00 -0400, Steven W McDougall wrote:
>Are Perl6 threads preemptive or cooperative?
>
>Last week, I asked whether Perl6 threads support SMP. There were a
>handful of responses, mostly to the effect that
>- we don't know
>- we don't care
>- we get whatever the native thread library gives us
>
>This assumes that Perl6 uses the native thread library on each
>platform,

Perl 6 threads will use the native threading system on each platform. To do 
otherwise means an enourmous amount of mostly useless work. It's just not 
worth it.


                                        Dan

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