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From: tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Cc: rlb@defaultvalue.org,  mvo@zagadka.ping.de,  guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Recursive mutexes?
Date: 26 Oct 2002 16:26:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8765vook7c.fsf@becket.becket.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200210262242.PAA26787@morrowfield.regexps.com>

Tom Lord <lord@regexps.com> writes:

> In my "dream scheme" system, I'm thinking they aren't worth the
> effort.  They slow down access to the store and complicate
> programming.  I don't even want to think about how to reconcile them
> with continuations, dynamic-wind, or fluids.

It seems to me that we should not decide that a problem is too hard to
solve well before trying.

> I do want multiple interpreters (without a shared store) in separate
> threads.  I do want low-level routines running in separate threads
> (e.g., give a CPU to I/O or to reving cellular automata generations).   
> But I'm having trouble seeing Scheme semantics as other than "optimal
> for SISD".

How will these different interpreters share data?


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  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-26 23:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-26 20:35 Recursive mutexes? Marius Vollmer
2002-10-26 21:39 ` Neil Jerram
2002-10-27  0:03   ` Marius Vollmer
2002-10-27  1:20     ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-10-27 12:36       ` Marius Vollmer
2002-10-27  7:55     ` Neil Jerram
2002-10-27 18:33       ` Rob Browning
2002-10-26 22:16 ` Rob Browning
2002-10-26 22:29   ` Rob Browning
2002-10-26 22:42   ` Tom Lord
2002-10-26 23:26     ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG [this message]
2002-10-26 23:35       ` Tom Lord
2002-10-26 23:50         ` Tom Lord
2002-10-27  1:18           ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-10-26 22:47   ` Tom Lord
2002-10-27  8:33     ` Neil Jerram
2002-10-27 17:21       ` Tom Lord
2002-10-27  0:35   ` Marius Vollmer
2002-10-27  4:36     ` Rob Browning
2002-10-27 11:32       ` Marius Vollmer
2002-10-27 18:44         ` Rob Browning

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