Re: basic question about sharing variables

2002-12-16 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
At 14:34 +0530 12/14/02, Aravind Srivaths wrote: I read through most of the archive but I am still unable to figure out why implementing shared variables requires all this complexity. For a start you would want to have this work on _all_ platforms on which Perl runs. So this already adds quite

basic question about sharing variables

2002-12-16 Thread Aravind Srivaths
I read through most of the archive but I am still unable to figure out why implementing shared variables requires all this complexity. Let me start with a description of my understanding of threads: . All shared variables need to be accessible from the interpreters corresponding to the threads