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From: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
Cc: rm@fabula.de, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: scm_* API extension? [was] scm_* API question
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 13:31:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bs8hw412.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ljn0s1fb3k.fsf@burns.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> (Marius Vollmer's message of "05 Aug 2002 19:51:11 +0200")

Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de> writes:

>>  - Thread support.
>
> Yep, but it seems to be hard in its full generality.  Cooperative
> threads work fine, tho.

Yeah.  Fully blown preemptive threads would be hard, and would likely
have non-trivial attendant costs, but without solving that problem
right now (if ever), does anyone know how we stand on the POSIX
threads front?  Can we coexist with them OK, or are there fundamental
issues(TM).

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-08-05 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-30 12:14 scm_* API question rm
2002-07-31  1:09 ` Christopher Cramer
2002-07-31 10:03   ` scm_* API extension? [was] " rm
2002-07-31 10:10     ` Marius Vollmer
2002-07-31 18:21       ` rm
2002-07-31 21:59         ` Rob Browning
2002-08-01 10:10           ` rm
2002-08-01 16:51             ` Rob Browning
2002-08-05 15:08         ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-05 16:06           ` rm
2002-08-05 16:49             ` Marius Vollmer
2002-07-31 20:06       ` Christopher Cramer
2002-07-31 22:14         ` Rob Browning
2002-08-01  9:41         ` rm
2002-08-05 17:51           ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-05 18:12             ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-08-05 18:45               ` Rob Browning
2002-08-05 18:31             ` Rob Browning [this message]
2002-08-05 18:33             ` rm
2002-08-05 15:12         ` Marius Vollmer
2002-07-31 10:11 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-07-31 10:30   ` rm

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