Re:Why I’m Learning Perl 6
by lackbeard on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @10:01AM
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Because it not a helpful comment. It's wrong in a lot of ways and misleading in others.
Like dragonwriter said, having coroutines in your language or a fiber library is not close to the same thing as the language having a scheduler that maps those fibers onto native threads for you. Some of the languages mentioned can't even execute multiple threads on multiple cores in parallel.
Like dragonwriter said, having coroutines in your language or a fiber library is not close to the same thing as the language having a scheduler that maps those fibers onto native threads for you. Some of the languages mentioned can't even execute multiple threads on multiple cores in parallel.