Re: another try at multithreading

[Alex Sandro Queiroz e Silva <asandroq@...>]

Hallo,

Javier Guerra wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Robert Raschke <rtrlists@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On 6/20/08, Javier Guerra <javier@guerrag.com> wrote:
> > > remember, even Erlang with its nice lightweight threads and message
> > > passing, is implemented on top of shared data structures.
> > Sure, but with the added proviso of not doing destructive updates in
> > the language. That makes sharing data quite a bit easier. So, how
> > about a "single assignment" version of Lua?
>
> sounds nice.  of course, i wouldn't know where to start.

     "Single assignment" is the easier way to add concurrency, but it 
would turn Lua effectively into a functional language, changing much of 
its semantics.

-alex
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