[Self-interest] globals (was: Block Question)

[Steve Dekorte]

I agree with his criticisms of non-cooperative threads, but coroutines are cooperative threads which  avoid these issues. 

> On Nov 15, 2021, at 3:03 PM, kjx <kjx at ecs.vuw.ac.nz> wrote:
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> dunno. I think he just really, really likes futures.
> 
> it may be to avoid even the appearance of concurrency within
> a single vat/actor - like John Ousterhout's arguments here: 
> 
> https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/threads.pdf
> 
> James 
> 
>> On 16/11/2021, at 11:04AM, Steve Dekorte <steve at dekorte.com> wrote:
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>> I think Mark was one of the people opposed to coroutines. I’m not sure why.
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