Deprecate Threads

[chromatic]

On Friday 31 December 2010 at 07:48, Andrew Whitworth wrote:

> I would like to deprecate and remove Parrot's threading system. This
> system does not really work for anything beyond the most trivial
> tasks.

I agree with the rationale for replacing the existing threading system, but is 
it really so unrecoverable that we can't use our traditional mechanism of 
replacement?

1) design a better API
2) hide the current malfeasances behind said API
3) replace the backend in place

-- c