At 8:22 AM +1100 11/18/02, Damian Conway wrote:
I've been noticing things have been getting rather more quantum lately. This may have some... interesting repercussions, as that has some subtle and not so subtle ramifications in how the interpreter needs to behave.Luke Palmer asked:Of course, there will be a pragma or something to instruct it to operate serially, yes?I doubt it. Unless there's a pragma to instruct threads to operate serially. In any case, I'm not sure what such a pragma would buy you. The ordering of evaluation would still be inherently unordered. BTW, in thinking about it further, I realize that Dan is going to have to tackle this issue anyway. There's fundamentally no difference in the exigencies of:
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