Re: Rules and hypotheticals: continuations versus callbacks

> My main questions are: > > Is there a simpler system I'm overlooking? > Which of the two systems would you prefer if speed isn't the issue? Mechanism 1. > Which system is likely to run faster on parrot? They're both likely to be very slow. > and maybe also: > What is the current plan? >

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Re: [perl #21600] [PATCH] Enable buffer io in PIO

On Mar-18, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 9:57 PM + 3/18/03, Nicholas Clark wrote: > >Oops. This turned into a ramble. "flush" ne "sync". If both are needed in > >different places, provide both as distinct methods. > > Valid point though. We need both a flush and a sync, since we can't > be sure th

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Re: [perl #21600] [PATCH] Enable buffer io in PIO

At 9:57 PM + 3/18/03, Nicholas Clark wrote: Oops. This turned into a ramble. "flush" ne "sync". If both are needed in different places, provide both as distinct methods. Valid point though. We need both a flush and a sync, since we can't be sure that what's living underneath an io handle is a

Re: [perl #21600] [PATCH] Enable buffer io in PIO

On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 09:28:36AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 3:00 PM +0100 3/18/03, Juergen Boemmels wrote: > >Benjamin Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> So... it is a slow system call, with no visible > >> effect -- why do we do it? > > > >Deepends on the semantics we want to have f

Re: megillah (was Re: This week's Perl 6 Summary)

--- Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "PC" == Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > PC> To do that you need to declare the parameter with "is > PC> copy". Uri noted that he really should keep his finger off > the > PC> send button until he's read the whole 'm

megillah (was Re: This week's Perl 6 Summary)

> "PC" == Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PC> To do that you need to declare the parameter with "is PC> copy". Uri noted that he really should keep his finger off the PC> send button until he's read the whole 'megilla', whatever one PC> of those is. it is appr

Re: [perl #21600] [PATCH] Enable buffer io in PIO

At 3:00 PM +0100 3/18/03, Juergen Boemmels wrote: Benjamin Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: "JüRgen BöMmels" wrote: [snip] > void > PIO_unix_flush(theINTERP, ParrotIOLayer *layer, ParrotIO *io) > { > -# if 0 > fsync(io->fd); > -# endif > } AFAIK, for disk files, fsync has

Re: [perl #21600] [PATCH] Enable buffer io in PIO

Benjamin Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "JüRgen BöMmels" wrote: > [snip] > > void > > PIO_unix_flush(theINTERP, ParrotIOLayer *layer, ParrotIO *io) > > { > > -# if 0 > > fsync(io->fd); > > -# endif > > } > > AFAIK, for disk files, fsync has (should have) no visible effect from

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