Forgot to send this to the list. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alex Elsayed <eternal...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:55 PM Subject: Re: Ideas for a "Object-Belongs-to-Thread" threading model To: Daniel Ruoso <dan...@ruoso.com>
You may find interesting a paper that was (at one point) listed in the /topic of #perl6. The paper is: "Combining Events And Threads For Scalable Network Services" http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~stevez/papers/LZ07.ps Steve Zdancewic and Peng Li, who wrote it, implemented their proof of concept in Haskell, and I think it would mesh rather well with the 'hybrid threads' GSoC project that Parrot is undertaking. What's more, the proof-of-concept demonstrated that it performed very well, well enough that the threading/event abstractions were never a bottle neck even up to 10M threads (for memory usage, this came out to 48bytes per thread of overhead), and with >100 threads it outperformed NPTL(pthreads)+AIO on IO. It's also CPS based, which fits pretty well.
