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Re: Patch for fields of `struct buffer'
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Stephen J. Turnbull |
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Re: Patch for fields of `struct buffer' |
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Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:09:20 +0900 |
Stefan Monnier writes:
> > I don't think preemptive thread switching is a sensible goal. It is
> > so much trouble that it isn't worth doing even in the long term.
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> I don't think we will get to choose.
FWIW, Guido Van Rossum is about +0.5 in Richard's camp.
Simon Peyton-Jones seemed pretty optimistic about STM in his
"Beautiful Code" chapter, but the Haskell programmers I know say it
doesn't work nearly so well in their practical programs.
So, maybe we will lose all our non-genius programmers if we don't do
threads. Then again, maybe not.<wink>
- Re: Patch for fields of `struct buffer', (continued)
- Re: Patch for fields of `struct buffer', Daniel Colascione, 2011/02/01
- Re: Patch for fields of `struct buffer', Tom Tromey, 2011/02/06
- concurrency suggestions for Gnus (was: Patch for fields of `struct buffer'), Ted Zlatanov, 2011/02/07
- Re: concurrency suggestions for Gnus, Miles Bader, 2011/02/07
- Re: concurrency suggestions for Gnus, Andy Moreton, 2011/02/08
- Re: concurrency suggestions for Gnus, Justin Lilly, 2011/02/08
- bloom filters (was: concurrency suggestions for Gnus), Ted Zlatanov, 2011/02/08
- bloom filters (was: concurrency suggestions for Gnus), Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/02/08
- Re: concurrency suggestions for Gnus, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2011/02/10
Re: Patch for fields of `struct buffer',
Stephen J. Turnbull <=
Re: Patch for fields of `struct buffer', Stefan Monnier, 2011/02/01