Re: future thread interface

[Christopher Cramer]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 12:27:07PM +0200, Marius Vollmer wrote:
> In my view, the goal is to avoid to have to chose.  That is, Guile
> should be written against the POSIX pthread API only.  When people
> have a need for a non-standard threading implementation, that
> implementation should offer the pthread API and Guile can then use it
> transparently.

This is a surprising answer, since the code is clearly not written to
only use the pthread API. I suppose the goal has changed, and the code
doesn't reflect that yet.

Does that mean scm_internal_select will be eliminated?

> This depends on what you mean exactly with "coop" threads.  The coop
> thread package based on QuickThreads has already been removed from
> 1.7.

So it's not coming back? The only other mention of this I could find was
a ChangeLog entry saying 'Support for "coop" threads has been removed
until I get time to add it again.'

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