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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-05-14 01:55:47 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-05-14 01:55:47 +0000 |
| commit | b2f9d7982780b85cfb0d72b817931fccdc4e059c (patch) | |
| tree | f3c698ec64fc9352f02158de8fd7690caff76e2e /pod/perltodo.pod | |
| parent | afe3852089dde68b99096e1e00a604b53259fbd1 (diff) | |
| download | perl-b2f9d7982780b85cfb0d72b817931fccdc4e059c.tar.gz | |
Todo tweaks.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@16587
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diff --git a/pod/perltodo.pod b/pod/perltodo.pod index e576459fa6..314ac1ed86 100644 --- a/pod/perltodo.pod +++ b/pod/perltodo.pod @@ -132,15 +132,17 @@ Wait for ever. http://archive.develooper.com/perl5-porters@perl.org/msg79618.html -=head2 Better support for nonpreemptive threading systems like PTH +=head2 Better support for nonpreemptive threading systems like GNU pth -To better support nonpreemptive threading systems perhaps some of the -blocking functions internally in perl should do a yield() before a -blocking call. +To better support nonpreemptive threading systems, perhaps some of the +blocking functions internally in Perl should do a yield() before a +blocking call. (Now certain threads tests ({basic,list,thread.t}) +simply do a yield() before they sleep() to give nonpreemptive thread +implementations a chance). -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. +In some cases, like the GNU pth, which has replacement functions that +are nonblocking (pth_select instead of select), maybe Perl should be +using them instead when built for threading. =head2 Typed lexicals for compiler |