Threading design

[Gordon Henriksen]

I wish the threading design for parrot would look more toward 
successful, performant multithreaded systems, rather than setting up new 
design experiments based upon the results of failed experiments (in 
particular, all forms of Perl 5 threading). I think that 
environment-cloning and fine-grained locks have both been adequately 
proven antithetical to what is expected from threads: Lightweight, 
low-overhead concurrency. Environment cloning is high-performance, but 
high overhead. Fine-grained locks are low overhead, but low-performance.

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Gordon Henriksen
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