At 10:45 AM 9/30/2001 -0700, Hong Zhang wrote:
>The same story may happen to Perl. If Perl make all operations on SV, AV,
>HV sync, the performance will be pathetic. Many SMP machines can only
>perform about 10M sync operations per second, because sync op requires
>system-wide bus lock or global memory transaction. This situation will
>not change much in the future.
Only variables marked as shared will get locked, the rest won't. Each
thread'll get its own interpreter, so there shouldn't be much at all in the
way of global resources to go locking on, if we do things properly.
Dan
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