Thanks for the answers that's very helpful and the talk was pretty
interesting. One thing that concerns me a bit is he mentions parallel but
not concurrent collectors (the kind MoarVM has) may stop scaling around ~16
threads. Seeing as a new desktop these days will come with a 12 core
Broadwell tha
Hi there, let me answer a few of your questions real quick:
On 05/10/16 20:38, Joseph Garvin wrote:
> > What is the state of multithreading in Perl 6 (MoarVM)? >
Specifically: > > * Can two threads preempt one another?
MoarVM has threads that map to operating system level threads. Rakudo
exposes
Lately I've been trying out new (to me) languages and one of the things I
keep running into is "fake" threading support, i.e. the threads are "real"
in the sense they can preempt one another and map to native OS threads, but
in practice they can't actually run at the same time so there is no
parall
