--- Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 8:13 PM +0200 3/31/03, Matthijs van Duin wrote: > >On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 07:45:30AM -0800, Austin Hastings wrote: > >>I've been thinking about closures, continuations, and coroutines, > and > >>one of the interfering points has been threads. > >> > >>What's the P6 thread model going to be? > >> > >>As I see it, parrot gives us the opportunity to implement > preemptive > >>threading at the VM level, even if it's not available via the OS. > > > >I think we should consider cooperative threading, implemented using > >continuations. Yielding to another thread would automatically > >happen when a thread blocks, or upon explicit request by the > >programmer. > > > >It has many advantages: > > And one disadvantage: > > Dan doesn't like it. :) > > Well, there are actually a lot of disadvantages, but that's the only > important one, so it's probably not worth much thought over alternate > threading schemes for Parrot at least--it's going with an OS-level > preemptive threading model. > > No, this isn't negotiable.
More information please. =Austin
