[m-dev.] Globals and concurrency

[Julien Fischer]

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Michael Day wrote:

>
> Hi Julien,
>
>> A thought I had a while ago is that now we have mutables and the
>> `attach_to_io_state' attribute we should just get rid of io.{set,get}_globals.
>
> Last time I checked, the globals mechanism was giving us slightly better
> performance than the mutables, although I have no idea why, and would not
> have expected this behaviour.

That's odd - the two mechanisms are implemented almost identically.

Julien.
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