From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Back to the future!
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:04:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739q9brws.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87r5dwkvej.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net
Hello!
Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
[...]
>> (set! %futures (cons future %futures)) ;; FIXME: use a FIFO
>
> I believe (ice-9 q) provides FIFOs, so you could use that.
Right. I’m not fond of its API, but we’ll see.
BTW, you might want to contemplate the restrictions of futures as
implemented by one of our competitor:
http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/performance.html#%28part._effective-futures%29
Both ‘*’ and ‘/’ can be used in Guile futures! ;-)
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-07 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-02 23:55 Back to the future! Ludovic Courtès
2010-12-03 9:57 ` Andy Wingo
2010-12-05 16:59 ` Neil Jerram
2010-12-07 14:04 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2010-12-16 22:56 ` Ludovic Courtès
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