Rationale behind removal of DynLexPad dynpmc, OpenGL and SDL bindings

[Reini Urban]

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Allison Randal <allison at parrot.org> wrote:
> On 03/07/2013 09:00 AM, Reini Urban wrote:
>>
>> if parrot throws away the ffi binding for no apparent reason, no single language
>> besides rakudo will show interest.
>> guaranteed.
>
> This branch only cares about Rakudo.
>
>> again technical concerns:
>> our lexpad works, rakudos lexpad is broken with threads.
>
> Parrot's threads are broken anyway and slow, so throw them away.

Completely wrong.
Parrot threads work very good and are amongst the fastest on the planet.
I have no idea who told you this.

They cannot compete with fibers (Felix), but with the fastest threaded
languages, Go and Erlang.
Maybe you start reading a bit on our new threads.

> Look, the point here is to chuck old baggage, so we can focus on
> *finishing* a good product for a single purpose. We don't get there by
> clinging to every good idea anyone ever had for Parrot.

Please do no harm.

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