Re: [pure-lang-users] ANN: Pure 0.6 released

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

I wrote:
> [...] Erlang-style message passing (but 
> without the copying, which will need some special provisions in order to 
> get safe but lockless reference counting)

Well, I should add here that I'd like to avoid copying in the message 
passing because of efficiency considerations, and because this allows 
the passing of function objects (including thunks, and therefore lazy 
data structures).

But I still consider the copying option because it makes things so much 
easier. Not sharing any data between threads except the message queues 
and the thread handles has the chief advantage that almost all tricky 
synchronization issues just go away, and it's easier to make this work 
across the network, too. So I'll certainly take a look at how the Erlang 
people have done this.

Albert

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Dr. Albert Gr"af
Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
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