Re: v5.5.640 plans

[Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@ActiveState.com>]

On Wed, 05 Jan 2000 16:01:22 EST, Andy Dougherty wrote:
>On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote:
>>   * Configure support for USE_ITHREADS (basically just adding -Duseithreads
>>     and enabling all the probing for pthreads functionality that's already
>>     there for -Dusethreads)
>
>I can probably do this one.  

Great, I was hoping you'd say that. :-)

>On a tangent note, if the "interpreter threads" model is called
>'ithreads', what should we call the other model?  I'm imagining making
>-Dusethreads will still trigger the appropriate hints file stuff as it
>does now, but that, in addition, one might be asked to specify which
>"model" to use.

That's a fine idea.

>Still, I gather this is all interim stuff, as I imagine 5.6 won't really
>have 2 different supported "threads" models.

That's what I'm shooting for, but depending on how much work gets done
(or not done), we may or may not be able to lift the "experimental"
qualifier from the usethreads support.


Sarathy
gsar@ActiveState.com

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