Can you not see that: . given the low priority, bordering on active hostility, towards concurrency, achieving the will to correct such problems is very unlikely. is vastly different to: "Perl 6 hates concurrency and refuses to do anything about it!"...?
Can you deny that only considering concurrency now, after 10 years of development, is: given the low priority,"?
Do I need to dig out all the quotes from Perl Community leaders and one-time Parrot lead developers etc. saying stuff like "threads is spelt 'fork'"; and generally denying that threads are useful? Does that not constitute "bordering on active hostility"?
Again you attribute quotes: "it's too late for Perl 6 or Parrot to do anything sane with concurrency.". not for things I said; but for your interpretation of what I said.
For a start I was referring to Parrot alone--not Perl 6.
But actually, I do believe it is too late to retro-fit threading to Parrot.
One reason is: I don't believe you can ever achieve good performance using a register-based VM in a threaded environment. Each thread has its own stack, and that is where all thread local entities should live. Using a common heap for low-level interpreter entities (eg. register spill files), creates the need for too much locking.
I don't believe that user-space threading is a viable solution to concurrency in the rapidly encroaching world of multi-core CPUs.
Hence: "achieving the will to correct such problems is very unlikely".
Do you consider those words constructive efforts to engender dialog?
I've pretty much ceased to try and engender dialog, because: a) past experiences show tell me I'd be wasting my time; and b) because I believe it is too late to do so.
I've considered attempting to start afresh on a stack-based VM that targets kernels threads from the ground up. Kernels threads because a) they're the ONLY form of concurrency that scales on modern, multi-core cpus; b) because all the other forms of single process concurrency can (easily) be layered on top. No other form of threading can make that claim.
But I realise that I don't have the skills to do it alone; nor the following to get the right skills behind it.
So yes. It is my opinion that Rakudo is too little to late. And I reserve the right to express that opinion. Do you deny me that?
Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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