From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Ryde Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: About 'futures' Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 10:35:28 +1100 Message-ID: <874qfl4sov.fsf@zip.com.au> References: <66e540fe05030812526a7ccb6f@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110325272 18485 80.91.229.2 (8 Mar 2005 23:41:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 23:41:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org, Marius Vollmer Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 00:41:12 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8oJv-0001bo-6x for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 00:40:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8oYU-00074W-3m for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 18:56:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8oUi-0006WQ-Mb for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 18:52:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8oUK-0006MI-Oq for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 18:51:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8oUK-0006Ll-8m for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 18:51:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [61.8.0.85] (helo=mailout2.pacific.net.au) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D8oEo-000620-TN for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 18:35:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailproxy2.pacific.net.au (mailproxy2.pacific.net.au [61.8.0.87]) by mailout2.pacific.net.au (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-7.1) with ESMTP id j28NZcHn014963; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 10:35:38 +1100 Original-Received: from localhost (ppp24D5.dyn.pacific.net.au [61.8.36.213]) by mailproxy2.pacific.net.au (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-7.1) with ESMTP id j28NZbMp029528; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 10:35:37 +1100 Original-Received: from gg by localhost with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1D8oEa-0000mg-00; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 10:35:28 +1100 Original-To: djurfeldt@nada.kth.se Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: <66e540fe05030812526a7ccb6f@mail.gmail.com> (Mikael Djurfeldt's message of "Tue, 8 Mar 2005 21:52:35 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) 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 X-MailScanner-To: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:4840 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:4840 Mikael Djurfeldt 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. _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel