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From: Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@kvast.blakulla.net>
Cc: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>,
	 guile-devel@gnu.org, djurfeldt@nada.kth.se
Subject: Re: Thread interface issues
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 15:55:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xy7hee83t0z.fsf@linnaeus.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877kf5fg76.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (Marius Vollmer's message of "22 Nov 2002 22:27:25 +0100")

Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de> writes:

> Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:
>
>> Given the renewed discussion, could we not have both
>> 
>> - a low level, implementation-dependent scm_t_mutex, with no fairness
>>   guarantees, that is as native as possible w.r.t. the thread impl
>> 
>> - fair SCM mutexes built on top of scm_t_mutex.
>
> Yep, I think this is the way to go.

I concur.

> Mikael, when you want to work on this yourself, that would be great.
> Just tell me briefly.

Sorry, no time to work now.  But I will tell you if an opportunity to
work comes.  (But don't wait for me!)

Mikael


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  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-23 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-26 20:12 C level mutices and condition variables Marius Vollmer
2002-10-26 21:28 ` Neil Jerram
2002-10-26 23:33   ` Marius Vollmer
2002-10-27  7:40     ` Neil Jerram
2002-10-27 12:37       ` Marius Vollmer
2002-11-11 22:05 ` Thread interface issues (was Re: C level mutices and condition variables) Mikael Djurfeldt
2002-11-12 22:37   ` GC & threads (was: Thread interface issues) Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-11-12 23:09   ` Thread interface issues (was Re: C level mutices and condition variables) Neil Jerram
2002-11-22 21:27     ` Marius Vollmer
2002-11-23 20:55       ` Mikael Djurfeldt [this message]
2002-11-24 10:27         ` Thread interface issues Marius Vollmer

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