Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] Handle terminating signals.

[Keir Fraser]

On 27/8/08 10:10, "Avi Kivity" <address@hidden> wrote:

>> Message passing, using the right language tools (in C that unfortunately
>> means writing your own or going back to 60s textbooks)
>>   
> 
> Oh, if we're talking languages, then I'm all for pure functional
> languages.  If you are side effects free, you can let the runtime do all
> the threading for you automatically.

Practical efficient implementation of this is still an open research
problem, I believe. At least as far as auto-parallelisation is concerned.
It's one of those pure-functional-language myths.

 -- Keir