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| author | Artur Bergman <sky@nanisky.com> | 2002-05-13 19:38:09 +0000 |
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| committer | Artur Bergman <sky@nanisky.com> | 2002-05-13 19:38:09 +0000 |
| commit | cfde3649a26e068bed350de1d915e976bd4084aa (patch) | |
| tree | 81e2279ac5a94bd048cebccd7c8233f5ceb5a4da | |
| parent | e570eafc41b1263d7952287c1acaa2d9ee7ed439 (diff) | |
| download | perl-cfde3649a26e068bed350de1d915e976bd4084aa.tar.gz | |
Make the point a bit clearer after suggestion from Merijin
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@16580
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perltodo.pod | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perltodo.pod b/pod/perltodo.pod index 1756e53125..e576459fa6 100644 --- a/pod/perltodo.pod +++ b/pod/perltodo.pod @@ -134,9 +134,13 @@ http://archive.develooper.com/perl5-porters@perl.org/msg79618.html =head2 Better support for nonpreemptive threading systems like PTH -Perhaps do yield() before blocking calls, exchange calls to non blocking -calls specific for those libraries (for example GNUpth has a pth_sleep -which is a non pth aware version of sleep). +To better support nonpreemptive threading systems perhaps some of the +blocking functions internally in perl should do a yield() before a +blocking call. + +In some cases, like GNUpth, which has replacement functions that +are non blocking (pth_select instead of select), maybe per should +be using them instead when built for threading. =head2 Typed lexicals for compiler |