From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark H Weaver Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Thread-unsafe initialization problems in Guile Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:25:05 -0500 Message-ID: <87pq0voiym.fsf@tines.lan> References: <87wqx4w878.fsf@tines.lan> <87vcco5g4j.fsf@gnu.org> <87mwy0vxog.fsf@tines.lan> <877gn62thq.fsf@pobox.com> <87txq7okkj.fsf@tines.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1358965533 28136 80.91.229.3 (23 Jan 2013 18:25:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:25:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= , guile-devel@gnu.org To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 23 19:25:51 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ty519-0003bW-S2 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:25:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46576 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ty50s-0004yC-IL for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:25:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42724) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ty50l-0004xs-Ka for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:25:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ty50i-0004vz-Sy for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:25:23 -0500 Original-Received: from world.peace.net ([96.39.62.75]:48877) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ty50i-0004vm-P7; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:25:20 -0500 Original-Received: from 209-6-92-20.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com ([209.6.92.20] helo=tines.lan) by world.peace.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ty50b-0001FY-35; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:25:13 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87txq7okkj.fsf@tines.lan> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:50:20 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 96.39.62.75 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:15568 Archived-At: I wrote: > For a good introduction to what is needed to write robust multithreaded > code on modern weakly-ordered memory architectures, I recommend the > following article: > > http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2480.html and if you want a deeper understanding of what's going on in the hardware to cause these problems, see Paul McKenney's paper "Memory Barriers: a Hardware View for Software Hackers": http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/scalability/paper/whymb.2010.06.07c.pdf Mark