[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthijs Van Duin) writes:I think if we apply the Huffman principle here by optimizing for the most common case, cooperative threading wins from preemptive threading.
Well, if you optimize for the most common case, throw out threads altogether.
Well, I almost would agree with you since cooperative threading can almost entirely be done in perl code, since they are built in continuations. I actually gave an example of that earlier.
The only thing is that blocking system operations like file-descriptor operations need some fiddling. (first try it non-blocking fd operation, if that fails block the thread and yield to another; if all threads are blocked, so a select() or kqueue() or something similar over all fds on which threads are waiting)
If the hooks exist to handle this in a perl module, then I think we can skip the issue mostly, except maybe the question what to include with perl in the default installation.
-- Matthijs van Duin -- May the Forth be with you!
