- From: Aaron Boodman <aa@google.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:34:59 -0700
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:51 AM, Shannon <shannon at arc.net.au> wrote: > I thought Lua had an implementation of automated locking to use as a > reference but since it doesn't I have nothing more to offer on the subject. > Without knowing the internals of existing JS implementations I have no idea > what would be involved to provide automated locking and whether it is > impossible or just difficult. It seems like the best you could do is use a system-wide lock. Python does this I believe (http://docs.python.org/api/threads.html). It helps for IO (the lock can be released during synchronous IO), but it doesn't allow you to make use of multicore CPUs. - a
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