Re: Some experience with the igc branch

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"Benjamin Riefenstahl" <b.riefenstahl@turtle-trading.net> writes:

>>> From: Pip Cet <pipcet@protonmail.com>
>>> >> +#include <pthread.h>
>
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
>>> > We cannot use pthreads.h in portable code.  If we want to use
>>> > threads, we need separate implementations for Posix and Windows,
>>> > like wedid in systhread.c for Lisp threads.
>
> Just a drive-by observation: Signals are a POSIX feature, so we have to
> think about the potential conflict between signals and MPS only on
> POSIX, not on MS Windows, right?

I believe it affects all operating systems we're playing with (well, I'm
also playing with FreeDOS but I'm not going to port MPS to it.  It's my
New Year's resolution not to).

The allocation thread approach should work for all of them.  If we have
stdatomic.h, performance should be acceptable.

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