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From: Donal K. Fellows on 29 Dec 2009 16:58
On 29/12/2009 20:52, tom.rmadilo wrote:
> Very nice, but not magic.

Of course. "There is no magic." (Or is it just that we're the conjurers?)

Donal.
From: Uwe Klein on 30 Dec 2009 05:35
Donal K. Fellows wrote:
> On 29/12/2009 20:52, tom.rmadilo wrote:
>
>> Very nice, but not magic.
>
>
> Of course. "There is no magic." (Or is it just that we're the conjurers?)

Clarke: any sufficiently advanced tech is indistinguishable from magic.

uwe
From: Andreas Kupries on 16 Jan 2010 12:26
"Donal K. Fellows" <donal.k.fellows(a)manchester.ac.uk> writes:

> On 22/12/2009 19:50, tom.rmadilo wrote:
>> Green threads seem to be the product of hostility to an existing
>> solution and defects in the execution model of the language.
>
> They're specifically introduced when the language is poor at presenting
> non-blocking I/O to the user-level code. With Tcl 8.6, you can have
> almost the same effect by using something like Coronet
> <URL:http://wiki.tcl.tk/22231> to look after the asynchrony for you.
> It's not a complete lib yet, but it points to how you can do amazing
> stuff nowadays in scripts. Which is very cool. :-)

coronet is also part of Tcllib (v 1.12+), and available through the
TEApot.

% teacup list coro
entity name version platform
------- --------------- ------- --------
package coroutine 1 tcl
package coroutine::auto 1 tcl
------- --------------- ------- --------
2 entities found

Note: This requires Tcl 8.6+.

> You need native threads (or multiple processors) to use a multi-core
> system properly. There's no way to poodle-fake that.
>
> Donal.

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So long,
Andreas Kupries <akupries(a)shaw.ca>
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