From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: scm_* API extension? [was] scm_* API question Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 13:31:53 -0500 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87bs8hw412.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> References: <20020730121436.GA4465@www> <20020730200929.A18106@kiwi.pyrotechnics.com> <20020731100300.GC5661@www> <20020731150602.A32555@kiwi.pyrotechnics.com> <20020801094121.GC7425@www> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1028572285 30154 127.0.0.1 (5 Aug 2002 18:31:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 18:31:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rm@fabula.de, guile-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17bmdY-0007qF-00 for ; Mon, 05 Aug 2002 20:31:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17bmeB-00033I-00; Mon, 05 Aug 2002 14:32:03 -0400 Original-Received: from dsl-209-87-109-2.constant.com ([209.87.109.2] helo=defaultvalue.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17bme3-00032E-00 for ; Mon, 05 Aug 2002 14:31:55 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 775F614EF; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:31:54 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 89C85DD6; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:31:53 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: Marius Vollmer In-Reply-To: (Marius Vollmer's message of "05 Aug 2002 19:51:11 +0200") Original-Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:997 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:997 Marius Vollmer 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). -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org Previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG=1C58 8B2C FB5E 3F64 EA5C 64AE 78FE E5FE F0CB A0AD _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel