[Wellington-pm] Roundup of last night's meeting

[Andrew Boag]

Sound interesting.

Sam Vilain wrote:
> Grant McLean wrote:
>   
>> The next meeting will be on October the 9th.  It looks like we might
>> have a talk about using threads lined up and maybe even one about
>> Event.pm.  I am always keen to hear from potential speakers.
>>     
>
> Hmm... sounds like a call for an evening on multiprocessing.
>
> So in the context of Perl this varies from:
>
>  - fork(), emulated via threads on Windows
>
>  - the varying threads implementation attempts from the 5.004->5.6
>    Perl series, leading to the current one, interpreter threads
>
>  - co-operative, event/queue-driven systems like Event.pm, or the ones
>    in Gtk, Tk, etc.  POE can work within all of these FWIW
>
>  - co-operative, task switching systems - co-routines - via Coro in Perl
>    5 and the "produce" keyword in Perl 6.  These are really neat.
>
>  - semi-pre-emptive/per-opcode multi-threading systems.  I don't know of
>    any of these for Perl, but it's how Ruby threading works.
>
>  - Software Transaction Memory (STM) - one of the big buzzwords at OSCON
>    this year.  Done with the "contend { }" keyword in Perl 6.
>
> I guess I could talk about one or more of these or perhaps just give a
> big overview.  What are people most interested in hearing about?
>
> Sam.
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