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in thread Slow evolution of Perl = Perl is a closed Word

Threading is absolutely critical to Perl 6 and other languages that will run on Parrot.

That single sentence is the best news regarding Parrot I have seen written down in the last 3 years.

We have a prototype implementation,

Is this a part of the parrot distribution? Otherwise, it the prototype available for download?

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Re^14: Slow evolution of Perl = Perl is a closed Word
by AK108 (Friar) on Sep 10, 2007 at 04:03 UTC
    Not Quite Perl is part of Parrot, and covered here on the Pugs blog. There's also v6 at CPAN; Pugs, which is written in Haskell; and KindaPerl6 (which should have a real page, but I didn't find one).
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      I take that to mean, that despite the context and the second half of the sentence, the "prototype" mentioned is some kind of Perl 6 language prototype, and not any kind of Parrot threading prototype.

      That leaves just the existing PPD, which hasn't changed since it was drafted; is based upon the Perl 5 iThreads model; was written by people who had never used that model; makes no concessions to the obvious failures of the only existing implementation of that model; seeks to perpectuate all the mal-features of that model; and will have to be tacked-on to the Parrot single tasking architecture after the fact just as the existing implementation was.

      Oh dear.

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Re^14: Slow evolution of Perl = Perl is a closed Word (NQP; iThreads == Oh dear)
by erroneousBollock (Curate) on Sep 10, 2007 at 10:15 UTC
    -moved-
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