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• Timely post (Score:1)

  by renodino (6856) on 2008.02.21 23:42 (#61231) Homepage Journal

  Hmm, how timely.

  For several months now, I've been tempted to kite a grant proposal for Thread::Sociable [presicient.com], which (sadly) languishes while I focus on revenue generators. I've written up the proposal and everything.

  So why haven't I submitted it ?

  My sense is (please correct me if I'm wrong):

  1. If it isn't Perl6, its not likely to get much consideration.
  2. If its threads related, its even less likely to get attention.
  3. The advertised amounts ($500 to $3K) don't come close to covering the time/effort required to finish (which likely includes acquiring some multicore h/w)

  So it sits unfinished. And everytime I see a threads question popup on perlmonks or elsewhere, I have to shake my head and bite my tongue (I've already pimped too much).

  (If any org out there has an interest in sponsoring faster concurrency, STM, and a foundation for transactional distributed memory [xstm.net] for Perl5, please don't be a stranger!)

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  • Re: (Score:1)

    by btilly (5037)

    Actually the Perl 6 comment is exactly backwards. Most of the grant managers have far more Perl 5 experience than Perl 6, and it would be easier for us to evaluate Perl 5 proposals. But we get more good Perl 6 proposals than Perl 5 proposals. Indeed two have just voluntarily stepped down because they felt uncomfortable deciding so many Perl 6 grants when they didn't know that much about what was happening Perl 6.
    
    Threads related depends on the pitch that is made. We're aware that there are people trying