At Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:23:45 -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > >It's that last thing I'm worried about. That all thread related > >things in Parrot are forced to use an extra indirection and > >consequent performance penalty. > > They'll live. Python and Ruby both have a single global interpreter > lock and nobody much cares.
I really don't think thats true. People do care, and there are some brain cells out there working to fix it, last I checked. Its just not top of the list, because its non-trivial. -R
