From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Raeburn Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Fluids Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:09:44 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87eiknx4zl.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1077) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1266174599 32618 80.91.229.12 (14 Feb 2010 19:09:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:09:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ludovic_Court=E8s?= , guile-devel@gnu.org To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 14 20:09:56 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ngjqu-00019w-51 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:09:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54448 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ngjqt-00089E-8H for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:09:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ngjql-00088f-Up for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:09:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60279 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ngjql-000886-3u for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:09:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ngjqk-00080y-IP for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:09:46 -0500 Original-Received: from splat.raeburn.org ([69.25.196.39]:59649 helo=raeburn.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ngjqk-00080p-Cd; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:09:46 -0500 Original-Received: from squish.raeburn.org (squish.raeburn.org [10.0.0.172]) by raeburn.org (8.14.3/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o1EJ9ieX008260; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:09:44 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1077) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:9982 Archived-At: On Feb 14, 2010, at 10:50, Andy Wingo wrote: > My only qualm regards the number of potential pthread_key variables. = My > current emacs session has about 15K functions and 7K variables. Does = the > pthread_key mechanism scale well to this number of thread-local > variables? Repeating the IRC info, for the rest of the audience: POSIX implementations are allowed to impose a limit of as little as 128 = keys. It looks like glibc's limit (PTHREAD_KEYS_MAX) is 1024 on the box = I'm looking at, and Mac OS X uses 512. So, no, it won't scale. Ken=