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From: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org, Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Re: About 'futures'
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 10:35:28 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874qfl4sov.fsf@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <66e540fe05030812526a7ccb6f@mail.gmail.com> (Mikael Djurfeldt's message of "Tue, 8 Mar 2005 21:52:35 +0100")

Mikael Djurfeldt <mdjurfeldt@gmail.com> writes:
>
> The current implementation caches a number of "workers", so rather
> than spawning a new thread,

Do they get gc'ed after a while?

The relative lightness of futures probably wants mentioning in the
manual.


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-08 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-08 18:04 About 'futures' Marius Vollmer
2005-03-08 20:52 ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2005-03-08 23:35   ` Kevin Ryde [this message]
2005-03-09 15:15   ` Marius Vollmer
2005-03-09 19:02     ` Marius Vollmer
2005-03-09 19:50       ` Rob Browning
2005-03-08 21:37 ` Rob Browning
2005-03-09 15:17   ` Marius Vollmer

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