12 Apr
2006
12 Apr
'06
5:24 a.m.
On 12 April 2006 08:41, John Meacham wrote:
However, I am also of the mind that preemtiveness alone doesn't buy enough to make the runtime cost of locking worth it which is why I plan for jhc to be fully cooperative or fully OS threaded with no middle ground. but the situation is different in compilers such as nhc, where preemptiveness can be added relatively easily due to its run-time design and absolute speed was never a goal. In any case, the standard should admit a range of implementations.
Couldn't pre-emption be implemented quite easily in JHC if you compiled to C--? And imprecise exceptions, for that matter. Cheers, Simon