From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Vollmer Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: SCM_DEFER_INTS versus error Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 19:54:10 +0200 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87ad8d7x31.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> References: <87el0028c2.fsf@zip.com.au> <87ekyf9g50.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <87r82bxbx0.fsf@zip.com.au> <87oexcd78h.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1065549353 4530 80.91.224.253 (7 Oct 2003 17:55:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 17:55:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: djurfeldt@nada.kth.se, guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 07 19:55:51 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A6w3r-0000kG-00 for ; Tue, 07 Oct 2003 19:55:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A6w37-0007ku-KU for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2003 13:55:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A6w2o-0007jj-56 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2003 13:54:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A6w2F-0007VR-VK for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2003 13:54:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [129.217.163.1] (helo=mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A6w2F-0007VM-Hg for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2003 13:54:11 -0400 Original-Received: from zagadka.ping.de (unknown [192.168.2.2]) by mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix) with SMTP id A464C10D12 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 19:54:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (qmail 31039 invoked by uid 1000); 7 Oct 2003 17:54:10 -0000 Original-To: djurfeldt@nada.kth.se In-Reply-To: (Mikael Djurfeldt's message of "Mon, 22 Sep 2003 21:01:03 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2856 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2856 Mikael Djurfeldt 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. -- GPG: D5D4E405 - 2F9B BCCC 8527 692A 04E3 331E FAF8 226A D5D4 E405 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel