Re: [go-nuts] Still "missing" priority or ordered select in go?

2021-05-06 Thread Peter Wilson
Back in the days of transputers and occam, there was a desire to be able to manage all interesting events in a system in a within-language (language being occam) manner. Interrupts were a problem, because you can't describe interrupts as implemented by microprocessors (steal the PC and jump some

Re: [go-nuts] Thanks

2021-03-24 Thread Peter Wilson
I more naturally think of it ('All lives matter) as an emotional or philosophical statement. I feel it is absurd and harmful for sloganeering - especially 'language-engineered' sloganeering along the lines of 'have you stopped beating your wife yet?' - to be promoted on a technical page ; I am

Re: [go-nuts] Digest for golang-nuts@googlegroups.com - 8 updates in 4 topics

2021-01-18 Thread Peter Wilson
Robert I was interested in channel peformance only because it's the 'go idiom'. Channel communication is relatively complex, and so is a useful upper limit to costs of inter-goroutine synchronisation. It's reassuring to see that 50nsec per operation is what my machinery delivers. Simpler operat

[go-nuts] Advice, please

2021-01-13 Thread Peter Wilson
Folks I have code in C which implements a form of discrete event simulator, but optimised for a clocked system in which most objects accept input on the positive edge of a simulated clock, do their appropriate internal computations, and store the result internally. On the negative edge of the c