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From:
Elizabeth Mattijsen
Date:
August 8, 2002 08:49
Subject:
Re: Ideas for 5.10
Message ID:
4.2.0.58.20020808174307.0540ae60@mickey.dijkmat.nl
At 04:39 PM 8/8/02 +0100, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
>Arthur Bergman <arthur@contiller.se> writes:
> >Here is a list of things that I would like to see in 5.10
> >- Scrapped magic system, replaced by parrot PMCs, all complex types use
> >PMCs
>Even though that means group up re-write of threads::shared ?

As a heavy user of threads::shared (sometimes it feels like the _only_ user 
;-) I think that that is a good idea.  I think the basic premise of using 
tieing variables to make them shared, is a good idea.  However, the idea of 
keeping local copies of the shared values (as seems to be happening now, 
not sure whether that is design or bug) is a bad, IMHO.

And threads::shared is leaking as hell at the moment (at least for arrays 
and hashes) making it useless for any production environment at the moment.

I'm trying various approaches/ideas for shared variables in threads at the 
moment, implemented as a proof of concept in pure perl (hopefully 
migratable to XS or Inline::C in the future).


Liz


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