Re: Thread support plan with initial patch

[Dirk Herrmann]

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, NIIBE Yutaka wrote:

> Mikael Djurfeldt wrote:
> 
>  > An application using your pthreads support would then be linked with
>  > these tree libraries:
>  > 
>  >   libguile              providing the Scheme level thread primitives
>  >   libguilepthreads      providing "glue code" to plug into the thread 
> interface
>  >   libpthreads           the POSIX thread library
> 
> I see.  I think that it is possible to do that.  I don't know about
> the perfomance impact, though.

BTW, just to clarify, an application that does not use threads at all
still would have to be linked with:

  libguile
  libguilenothreads   no threads :-)

But probably everybody got the idea anyway...

Best regards,
Dirk Herrmann