From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: threadsafe format.scm
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:33:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878yoqi3b7.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307302246.16240.clinton@unknownlamer.org> (Clinton Ebadi's message of "Wed, 30 Jul 2003 22:46:15 -0400")
Clinton Ebadi <clinton@unknownlamer.org> writes:
> I moved all of the global definitions into a new format procedure that has a
> really long letrec. This should be entirely threadsafe.
Great, thanks! I have installed this. We don't need papers for it
since the change itself, although affecting everything, is quite
small.
> I'm not sure how Guile does evaluation of procedures once they have
> been evaluated once, so I'm not entirely sure if this has a huge
> amount of overhead or not.
There shouldn't be too much overhead. It will be slower than with
globals (probably, I would have to benchmark it to be sure), but not
much. However, the letrec _is_ pretty big and environment access in
Guile is O(n), so well...
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-29 3:27 threadsafe format.scm Clinton Ebadi
2003-07-30 22:36 ` Kevin Ryde
2003-07-30 23:06 ` Clinton Ebadi
2003-07-31 2:46 ` Clinton Ebadi
2003-07-31 22:11 ` Kevin Ryde
2003-08-01 2:39 ` Clinton Ebadi
2003-08-01 3:18 ` Clinton Ebadi
2003-09-15 13:33 ` Marius Vollmer [this message]
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