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From:
Rod Adams
Date:
April 28, 2005 10:55
Subject:
Re: Threading in Parrot vs Perl
Message ID:
42712381.4040302@rodadams.net
Aaron Sherman wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 10:00, Luke Palmer wrote:
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>>Aaron Sherman writes:
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>>>Well, more to the point, autothreading of junctions will hit the wall of
>>>Parrot duping the interpreter. That's probably not something you want to
>>>suffer just to resolve a junction, is it?
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>>What?  Why will it do that?
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>Why? Well, you can read what Dan wrote, 'cause I'm sure not going to
>pretend I'm enough of a threads programmer to have an educated opinion:
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I would be dismayed if autothreading used threads to accomplish it's 
goals. Simple iteration in a single interpreter should be more than 
sufficient.

-- Rod Adams


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