From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: GNU Guile branch, master, updated. v2.1.0-163-g283ab48 Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:09:21 +0100 Message-ID: <87y5rbxxvi.fsf@pobox.com> References: <87ipifvn9j.fsf@netris.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1331197781 18123 80.91.229.3 (8 Mar 2012 09:09:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 09:09:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: Mark H Weaver Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 08 10:09:41 2012 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 1S5ZLw-0007wD-8S for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:09:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58561 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S5ZLv-0002No-EU for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 04:09:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51100) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S5ZLp-0002Nb-6y for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 04:09:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S5ZLk-0002QI-8L for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 04:09:32 -0500 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([74.115.168.62]:43477 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S5ZLj-0002Np-VO for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 04:09:28 -0500 Original-Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75C646C60; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 04:09:25 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=iJiy0EVcyJYWLslGOHSdgH6cSdM=; b=UNaFBL 3eAdglQfSej3s1GHbZ0hTmQpvoI/D9HSzhyuYKZUNPCgWUz9evzy8+5Efp0fE+oI 7vhwV906jiWQcvlrspKz+1lr7wV7qhrP/VqqSzueTQuyprDBvHm24QpY0iCGdjdh HawCXKd5l6rz6DIcYHj9SEShb9w1+c8C6f3cs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=vx99hhZEX0FfxXEmA0WUwh7VweVPTd9E ebfcRWwhfFNHJnWYzbNgbgrxj8iGnBSbNiQTTRkM4Kdg2ME05rAsOcZK1b1oomgW b5ahJ0XzgTXOATn4orD4gLOm8w7e/4Ps9vJVkJCDwW3tQH1V6asXUfP9sGnJb8DR kxbqYY1kc80= Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 671EE6C5F; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 04:09:25 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from badger (unknown [90.164.198.39]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BFB9A6C5E; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 04:09:24 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87ipifvn9j.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:29:12 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 668C3B3C-68FE-11E1-AC4E-65B1DE995924-02397024!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 74.115.168.62 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:14057 Archived-At: Hi, On Thu 08 Mar 2012 03:29, Mark H Weaver writes: >> commit 283ab48d3f20a5c5281cafc29f0c30c8d8ace9ee >> Author: Andy Wingo >> Date: Wed Mar 7 19:01:56 2012 +0100 >> >> faster (make-prompt-tag); default-prompt-tag is a parameter >> >> * module/ice-9/boot-9.scm (default-prompt-tag): Once parameters have >> booted, redefine as a parameter. > > I fear that making 'default-prompt-tag' a parameter might slow things > down quite a bit on platforms with a slow implementation of thread local > storage. Not the case! It shouldn't depend on thread-local storage at all actually since the VM already has a handle on the current thread and dynamic state. > What's the anticipated use case for this? Parameterizing default prompts? It allows users to re-set the user/system process boundary for a dynamic extent. Andy -- http://wingolog.org/