From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: About 'futures' Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:50:15 -0600 Message-ID: <87mztclhu0.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> References: <66e540fe05030812526a7ccb6f@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110398372 21761 80.91.229.2 (9 Mar 2005 19:59:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 19:59:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: djurfeldt@nada.kth.se, guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 20:59:31 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D97Gi-000612-FT for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 20:54:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D97VQ-00044C-RR for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 15:10:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D97SY-0001H2-CX for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 15:07:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D97SR-0001Db-1S for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 15:07:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D97SQ-0001C3-A1 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 15:07:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [66.93.216.237] (helo=defaultvalue.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D97CE-0006Ht-5I for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:50:18 -0500 Original-Received: from trouble.defaultvalue.org (omen.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.1]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DAA84086; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 13:50:16 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by trouble.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 33FA83C103B; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 13:50:15 -0600 (CST) Original-To: Marius Vollmer In-Reply-To: (Marius Vollmer's message of "Wed, 09 Mar 2005 20:02:39 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:4849 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:4849 Marius Vollmer 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 GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel