[RFC] Represent Loom threads using branches

[Robert Collins]

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 11:19 +0800, James Henstridge wrote:
> 2008/5/1 Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net>:
> > On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 08:25 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
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> >  > I've been using the loom plugin pretty heavily, and I still feel like
> >  > loom threads should be branches.
> >
> >  My initial feelings are this is going to be hugely more complex for
> >  managing the loom history, and have significant performance implications
> >  too. (I expect large loom scenarios to number in the hundreds of
> >  patches). It will also remove the deliberate simplification of threads
> >  (which is not an implementation detail, its a deliberate design
> >  decision).
> >
> >  I will read your mail in more detail over the next couple of days.
> 
> In one of my uses of looms so far, I have been pushing individual
> threads to separate locations.

Could you enlarge on why you need to do this ?

-Rob
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