From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill Schottstaedt Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: scm_i_fraction_reduce thread safety Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 03:43:00 -0800 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3FD85844.3060108@ccrma> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071143157 2241 80.91.224.253 (11 Dec 2003 11:45:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:45:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 11 12:45:54 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AUPGU-0000rs-00 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:45:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AUQCp-00078e-GC for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 07:46:11 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AUQBn-00071u-2o for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 07:45:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AUQBC-0005lG-GG for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 07:45:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [171.67.16.117] (helo=smtp3.Stanford.EDU) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AUQBB-0005hQ-Op for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 07:44:29 -0500 Original-Received: from cm-mail.stanford.edu (cm-mail.Stanford.EDU [171.64.197.135]) by smtp3.Stanford.EDU (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hBBBh1tr012514; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 03:43:01 -0800 Original-Received: from ccrma (cmn13.stanford.edu [171.64.197.162]) by cm-mail.stanford.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hBBBh0U14221; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 03:43:00 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: user42@zip.com.au, guile-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3115 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3115 Actually I was thinking about garbage collection when I wrote that note (more of a reminder to myself to check it, which I of course forgot to do). I'd vote for a lock, if it's really an issue. On the need for reduction, I wonder how much of that notoriety is due to Knuth -- his discussion of this was in a slightly artificial context, and I've been intending for a long time to check some "real-world" situation. (I think it's less of a problem than calling gcd all the time). Perhaps Han-Wen has some info on this? _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel