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Postings from January 2001
At 02:06 PM 1/21/01 +0000, Alan Burlison wrote:
>Whenever the subject of threads, mutexes etc in perl come up there
>always seems to be suggestions that V1 of whatever is being proposed
>should be some unutterably complex monster with all sorts of handwavery
>magic going on behind the scenes to 'make life easier for the
>programmer'.
The only thing I can think of that we can do to truly "make life easier for
the programmer" is to fail to die horribly when someone screws up their
locking, and possibly add some debugging/monitoring stuff for user-level
locks and threads. (I have finally seen the error of my ways... :)
Dan
--------------------------------------"it's like this"-------------------
Dan Sugalski even samurai
dan@sidhe.org have teddy bears and even
teddy bears get drunk
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