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From:
Jonathan Worthington
Date:
September 19, 2005 16:34
Subject:
Re: About multithreading
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"Leopold Toetsch" <lt@toetsch.at> wrote:
> Nearby at python-dev I found this:
>
> http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm
> The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software
> Herb Sutter
>
> Nice article IMHO,
> leo - STM to the rescue
>
Yup, and it's encouraging to see Perl 6 is heading in a good direction on 
concurrency stuff at a language level too.

At a Parrot level, we can probably take advantage of having multiple cores 
and perform better (even when we have single-threaded parrot programs) by 
doing things like GC and/or other book-keeping tasks in a seperate thread. 
Not that I'd like to claim any of that is even close to trivial.

Jonathan 


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