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Re: the state of the concurrency branch
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: the state of the concurrency branch |
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Mon, 21 Oct 2013 12:41:10 -0400 |
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Stefan> In theory you could imagine a scheme where timers inherit the dynamic
Stefan> bindings that are in place when the timer is setup (or when the process
Stefan> is started).
Stefan> It wouldn't provide the exact same behavior we have currently, butit
Stefan> might be made close enough to give the right behavior in practice in
Stefan> most cases.
> I had actually implemented this for new threads, but you had me take it
> out again :)
I know ;-) (tho it was slightly different, IIRC, because your code
copied the value, whereas for timers we'd need to really share the
bindings, so that assignments in the timer code are reflected back in
the other thread).
> I think this would be too magical to do just for timers.
Agreed.
Stefan
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- Re: the state of the concurrency branch, Tom Tromey, 2013/10/18
- Re: the state of the concurrency branch, Richard Stallman, 2013/10/19
- Re: the state of the concurrency branch, Barry OReilly, 2013/10/19
- Re: the state of the concurrency branch, Stefan Monnier, 2013/10/19
- Re: the state of the concurrency branch, Barry OReilly, 2013/10/19
- Re: the state of the concurrency branch, Tom Tromey, 2013/10/21
- Re: the state of the concurrency branch, Barry OReilly, 2013/10/21
- Re: the state of the concurrency branch, Stefan Monnier, 2013/10/21
- Re: the state of the concurrency branch,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: the state of the concurrency branch, Barry OReilly, 2013/10/19