threads merged

Jonathan "Duke" Leto jonathan at leto.net
Mon Dec 3 21:00:56 UTC 2012


Howdy,

This is great news! Thanks to Reini and all the developers and GSoC
students that made this possible.

Duke

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray.at> wrote:

> I've tested and merged the threads branch today with 6b0fab6 and 637a135.
> I've also updated the native_pbc's as I had to bump PBC_COMPAT to 13.0
>
> 4.11.0 will not need to bump it again as I plan to merge
> rurban/gh870-pmc_class and native_pbc
> branches before.
> native_pbc will contain code to check pbc against PBC versions not the
> parrot library versions.
>
> ChangeLog line:
>        + parrot supports now fast and lightweight OS threads, based on
> Nat Tucks's
>           initial GSoC work on green threads and then Stefan Seifert's
> extension
>           to true parallel OS threads as hybrid threads.
>           See
> http://wknight8111.blogspot.co.at/2010/08/gsoc-threads-chandons-results.html
> and
>           http://niner.name/Hybrid_Threads_for_the_Parrot_VM.pdf
>
> Current issues:
> nqp passes all its tests but cannot yet use lexicals created in other
> tasks. nqplexpad is a bit of a mess.
> work is ongoing in the nqp branch: gh67-threads. This needs parrot
> with threads and rurban/gh870-pmc_class.
>
> Long live perl6
> --
> Reini Urban
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