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From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
Cc: djurfeldt@nada.kth.se, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: SCM_DEFER_INTS versus error
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 19:54:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ad8d7x31.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xy7u174b9o0.fsf@nada.kth.se> (Mikael Djurfeldt's message of "Mon, 22 Sep 2003 21:01:03 -0400")

Mikael Djurfeldt <djurfeldt@nada.kth.se> writes:

> Well, that was the situation with your COPT threads.

Ooops, yes, I could have known this...

> The current PTHREADS thread support of HEAD actually allow true
> concurrent access to Guile data structures.  The "kernel lock" is
> only used to force single-threaded GC.  The rest of the time,
> threads run in parallel.

Impressive.  I _am_ a bit nervous about programming in such an
environmnt, I have to say, but I think I just have to get used to it.
For Scheme code, this is no change compared to the copt model since
Scheme code had to expect preemption anyway.

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-07 17:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-05  1:37 SCM_DEFER_INTS versus error Kevin Ryde
2003-09-17 22:58 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-09-19 20:34   ` Tom Lord
2003-09-22 18:01     ` Marius Vollmer
2003-09-20 23:44   ` Kevin Ryde
2003-09-22 18:10     ` Marius Vollmer
2003-09-23  1:01       ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2003-10-07 17:54         ` Marius Vollmer [this message]
2003-12-06 21:15       ` Kevin Ryde

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