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From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org, guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Threads and asyncs
Date: 03 Sep 2002 01:51:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r8gceyqy.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200209022224.PAA07962@morrowfield.regexps.com>

Tom Lord <lord@regexps.com> writes:

> 	> Is there no use for thread-independent system-asyncs?
> 
> 	I can't think of any, right now.  
> 
> Any short computation that needs to be invoked asynchronously (say,
> perhaps, driven by a timer) is a candidate.  One can imagine efficient
> I/O working this way, for example; or simple animation of some sort in
> a GUI.

Hmm, I'd like to see these as thread-independent sources of async
activation, not as thread-independent asyncs.  A timer could be
configured to mark a particular async to run in whatever thread is
current when the timer goes off.  Likewise when I/O becomes possible.

Compared to thread-independent asyncs, you will only notice a
difference when there is a thread switch between the time an async is
marked and the original thread next checks for asyncs.  If that ever
becomes a problem, we can make a thread check its asyncs before
switching away from the CPU.

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-02 23:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-02 20:52 Threads and asyncs Marius Vollmer
2002-09-02 21:24 ` Tom Lord
2002-09-02 21:53   ` Marius Vollmer
     [not found]   ` <87bs7ggiss.fsf@zagadka.ping.de>
2002-09-02 22:24     ` Tom Lord
2002-09-02 23:51       ` Marius Vollmer [this message]
2002-09-02 23:02   ` Rob Browning
2002-09-02 23:24     ` Tom Lord
2002-09-02 23:36       ` Tom Lord
2002-09-02 23:52         ` Lynn Winebarger
2002-09-03  0:57           ` Tom Lord
2002-09-03  1:13             ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-09-03  1:29               ` Tom Lord
2002-09-03  1:31               ` Tom Lord
2002-09-03  1:00         ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-09-03  1:28           ` Tom Lord
2002-09-03  1:23             ` RnRS process/history/documentation (was Re: Threads and asyncs) Lynn Winebarger
2002-09-03  1:27             ` Threads and asyncs Rob Browning
2002-09-03  1:45               ` Tom Lord
2002-09-03  1:48               ` Lynn Winebarger
2002-09-04 23:46                 ` Lynn Winebarger
2002-09-05  0:20                   ` Tom Lord
2002-09-05  1:45                     ` Lynn Winebarger
2002-09-05  2:38                       ` Tom Lord
2002-09-05  2:30                         ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-09-05  2:43                           ` Tom Lord
2002-09-05  2:40                             ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-09-05  3:00                               ` Tom Lord
2002-09-05  2:57                                 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-09-05  3:23                                   ` Tom Lord
2002-09-05  3:14                         ` Lynn Winebarger
2002-09-05  4:00                           ` Tom Lord
2002-09-05  3:51                             ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-09-05  4:01                           ` Tom Lord
2002-09-05 22:03                             ` Lynn Winebarger
2002-09-03  1:34             ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-09-03 18:06 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-09-04  0:28   ` NIIBE Yutaka
2002-09-04 18:02     ` Marius Vollmer
2002-09-04 22:30       ` NIIBE Yutaka

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