Re: perl IS an event loop (was Re: Speaking of signals...)

[Dan Sugalski]

At 12:09 PM 1/6/01 -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > Some of this ground does need to be revisited, since perl 6 isn't going to
> > be perl 5, and the tradeoffs are going to be different. (I'm still not 
> sure
> > that checking for pending events every opcode is the way to go, either.
> > Piggybacking on the end of statement cleanup opcode might be a better
> > place, depending on how frequently that happens)
>
>That might also be a more logical place: then we could say that a statement
>is the 'atomic' unit.  Yes, some statements take longer than others.  Tough.

That's currently my feeling for most signals and events.

                                        Dan

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