[M3devel] Downsides of Modula-3 ?

[Dragiša Durić]

I do not doubt they are created. Probably not an issue with 3 threads here, 3 threads there, but it can be if one relies on "must be created after some arbitrary time" in any synchronization. I did, and SRC people did, at least in two places. I just don't see it as a good practice.

BTW, your test is excellent stress machine. My laptops hate it, probably, till now :). Right now I am focused  on an allocation race issue and I hope to fix it in few hours/a day.

On Apr 27, 2012, at 7:13 PM, Mika Nystrom wrote:

> =?utf-8?Q?Dragi=C5=A1a_Duri=C4=87?= writes:
> ...
>> I am reading your source code just now. And one thing caught my eye: =
>> "Each type of thread starts by sleeping for a while, to give the other =
>> threads a chance to be created." Does not look like any guarantee to me, =
>> not in threaded application.=20=
> 
> If the program prints "running" then all threads have been created.
> 
> It eventually prints "running".
> 
> Therefore all threads are created.
> 
> ---
> 
> The things wrong with CM3's pthreads threading are NOT subtle.
> The runtime completely freezes up, ctrl-C stops working, and other
> such things.
> 
>    Mika