Re: Parrot multithreading?

[Bart Lateur]

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 14:04:43 -0700, Damien Neil wrote:

>On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:57:44PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>> >For clarification: do you mean async I/O, or non-blocking I/O?
>> 
>> Async. When the interpreter issues a read, for example, it won't assume the 
>> read completes immediately.
>
>That sounds like what I would call non-blocking I/O. 

Nonono. Nonblocking IO returns immediately. Async IO lets the
interpreter go on with another thread, until the read is done.

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        Bart.