Re: [perl #125106] Why are threads discouraged?

On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 8:45 AM, bulk88 via RT
<perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 15:25:00 -0700, LeonT wrote:
>> If that's not what one wants, it's probably possible to implement GIL
>> threading instead (though I'm not sure if we'd really want that
>> either). I think that's unexplored territory though.
>
> Wouldnt one of the existing fibers/future/promises/Coro/async-but-not-async-with-explicit-yields modules that swap Perl stacks inside the same interp/same perl thread be perl's already-implemented GIL concept?

AFAIK those are all "one interpreter one os-thread", wheras GIL
threading is "one interpreter many os-threads"

Leon

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