From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: set-thread-vm! Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:22:59 +0200 Message-ID: <871v8flyvw.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1747848995.3367116.1285406769922.JavaMail.root@zmbs1.inria.fr> <87d3s17ath.fsf@gnu.org> <519213700.3460773.1285616726166.JavaMail.root@zmbs1.inria.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285618998 23685 80.91.229.12 (27 Sep 2010 20:23:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:23:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 27 22:23:16 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0KED-0008JF-BQ for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:23:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37677 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P0KEC-0003TB-Pt for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:23:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44623 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P0KE2-0003S9-Pu for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:23:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0KE1-0003yP-K4 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:23:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.82]:52029) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0KE1-0003yK-Eg for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:23:01 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.57,244,1283724000"; d="scan'208";a="73645852" Original-Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr (HELO nixey) ([80.67.176.83]) by mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA; 27 Sep 2010 22:23:00 +0200 X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 6 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Vend=E9miaire?= an 219 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <519213700.3460773.1285616726166.JavaMail.root@zmbs1.inria.fr> (Andy Wingo's message of "Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:45:26 +0200 (CEST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:10962 Archived-At: Hi! Andy Wingo writes: > On Sat 25 Sep 2010 23:49, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes: > >> Andy Wingo writes: >> >>> What's the purpose of set-thread-vm! ? >> >> See commit 639b2eb7107b26207d13bb8acb4c1d38d7dba3bd : it is used to work >> around that fact that =E2=80=98scm_call_N=E2=80=99 uses whatever =E2=80= =98scm_the_vm=E2=80=99 returns, >> which may be different from the calling VM. >> >> Perhaps that would be better solved by having =E2=80=98the-vm=E2=80=99 b= e a real fluid, >> though. >> >> Thoughts? > > I removed these accessors, because they're not really threadsafe, and > they don't work in the way you expect. We should probably also exclude > multiple threads from using the same VM. > > Anyway now there is call-with-vm, which I believe does what you want it > to do. Does that work for you? Yes, perfect! (And it even does more, which looks nice. :-)) Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.