Re: Are Perl6 threads preemptive or cooperative?

[Steven W McDougall]

> 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