[M3devel] More on threading

[Mika Nystrom]

I have bootstrapped so many versions of the compiler on so many systems
in the past week I've probably lost track of where we are, yes.

I'll do some testing on a bona fide head checkout and let you know what
I find.

    Mika

Tony Hosking writes:
>I know it worked properly at one point in time, when I stressed it very =
>hard for some GC-related work I was doing.
>I need to see instances of failure (deadlock, crashes) captured in the =
>debugger, running with the latest head code.
>I don't want to try and diagnose old versions of the system if at all =
>possible.
>I may have some time to try your thread test program in the next couple =
>of weeks.  Please let me know workloads that reliably cause failure.
>
>
>On Feb 13, 2011, at 1:17 PM, Mika Nystrom wrote:
>
>> I don't think pthreads works properly anywhere at
>> the moment.  My guess is that it never has, if you stress it hard =
>enough.