From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org, guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: why asyncs were created
Date: 03 Sep 2002 01:57:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <31952.1430683837$1031011011@news.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200209030005.RAA08472@morrowfield.regexps.com>
Tom Lord <lord@regexps.com> writes:
> > As a clarification, I have in mind to keep the "async" name and the
> > "async" behavior, but an async does not need to continue to be an
> > opaque object; it could just be a normal procedure that is used in a
> > special way.
>
>
> Ah -- a representation issue, not a semantic issue?
Yep.
> What replaces the `got_it' flag in an async object?
Instead of setting a flag, you would cons the object onto a list of
objects that are considered marked. At appropriate times, the list
would be checked to see whether it is non-empty.
Each thread would have such a list.
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2002-09-02 23:42 ` why asyncs were created Marius Vollmer
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2002-09-02 23:57 ` Marius Vollmer [this message]
2002-09-03 0:05 ` Tom Lord
2002-09-02 22:55 Tom Lord
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