Re: v5.5640 plans

[Robert Cunningham <rkc@ll.mit.edu>]

Could someone please point me to a description of the "new model", explaining the
trade-offs and advantages of it?  As you might guess, I rather like the old model and
would like to see it working reliably.

Rob

> On Wed, 05 Jan 2000 16:35:34 EST, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> >At 01:14 PM 1/5/00 -0800, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote:
> >>On Wed, 05 Jan 2000 16:01:22 EST, Andy Dougherty wrote:
> >> >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.
> >
> >We're shooting for ithreads under the hood, right? Do we want to have both 
> >the ithread model and current thread model visible from the perl level, or 
> >just toss the current model entirely?
> 
> I think we want one supported model in the end.  But until the USE_ITHREADS
> stuff has had a chance to catch up, I would like to keep both of them around.
> There's no maintenance cost associated with USE_THREADS as it stands, since
> it's all completely automated.  In some ways it would be more work to
> remove it now than to keep it around until we really want to get rid
> of it. :-)
> 
> 
> Sarathy
> gsar@ActiveState.com
>

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