[E-Lang] Speaking of Community Process: Memory Model & Threads

[Marc Stiegler]

> Wow.  Java's threading is way more broken than I thought!  I just talked
to
> Dean, and it sounds like all E implementations to date may fall into some
of
> these problems on shared memory multiprocessor machines (SMPs), and
possibly
> even on uni-processor Solaris JDKs as well.  E has never been tested on
> SMPs, and should not be assumed to work there until further notice.
> Unfortunately, we currently have to state the same caution for Solaris.

Unless they have changed something very recently, every E program I have run
on Solaris jvms has run identically to the E program on Linux and Windows.
Which is to say, among other things, that Solaris currently passes all our
QA tests, for better or for worse. We should revisit this matter when
version 10.0 of E is released.

--marcs