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From: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
Cc: djurfeldt@nada.kth.se, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: About 'futures'
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:50:15 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mztclhu0.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ljk6ogr6b4.fsf@troy.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> (Marius Vollmer's message of "Wed, 09 Mar 2005 20:02:39 +0100")

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

> So futures are clearly faster than threads (as expected).  Nice!

Indeed, and as I think someone may have mentioned, we definitely need
some clarification in the docs, since they don't make it clear how
futures differ from threads.

-- 
Rob Browning
rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-09 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-08 18:04 About 'futures' Marius Vollmer
2005-03-08 20:52 ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2005-03-08 23:35   ` Kevin Ryde
2005-03-09 15:15   ` Marius Vollmer
2005-03-09 19:02     ` Marius Vollmer
2005-03-09 19:50       ` Rob Browning [this message]
2005-03-08 21:37 ` Rob Browning
2005-03-09 15:17   ` Marius Vollmer

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