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Re: the state of the concurrency branch
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: the state of the concurrency branch |
Date: |
Tue, 27 Aug 2013 22:24:32 +0300 |
> From: Tom Tromey <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 13:14:24 -0600
>
> Eli> . Finally, if condition variables are unavailable (they are a pain on
> Eli> Windows, since only the latest versions support them natively), is
> Eli> it still possible to have threads, just without some
> Eli> synchronization features? Or are condition variables currently a
> Eli> must for the threading mechanism itself?
>
> I think it would be better if all platforms supported the same primitives.
I agree. The question was more an attempt to understand how deeply
does the threading implementation depend on Lisp mutexes and condition
variables.
> Condition variables can be implemented in a number of ways.
> libjava already has a Windows port you can lift from.
You mean libjava that is part of GCC? Thanks, I will look at that.
(I already saw a few solutions, and have an idea of an implementation,
but the more ideas the better.)
- Re: the state of the concurrency branch, (continued)
- Re: the state of the concurrency branch, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/08/27
- Re: the state of the concurrency branch, Paul Eggert, 2013/08/27
- Re: the state of the concurrency branch, Tom Tromey, 2013/08/27
- Re: the state of the concurrency branch, Paul Eggert, 2013/08/27
- Re: the state of the concurrency branch, Tom Tromey, 2013/08/27
- Re: the state of the concurrency branch, Paul Eggert, 2013/08/27
- Re: the state of the concurrency branch, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/08/27
- Re: the state of the concurrency branch, Paul Eggert, 2013/08/27
- Re: the state of the concurrency branch, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/08/27
- Re: the state of the concurrency branch, Tom Tromey, 2013/08/27
- Re: the state of the concurrency branch,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: the state of the concurrency branch, Tom Tromey, 2013/08/27
- Re: the state of the concurrency branch, Stefan Monnier, 2013/08/27
- Re: the state of the concurrency branch, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/08/28
- Re: the state of the concurrency branch, Tom Tromey, 2013/08/28
- Re: the state of the concurrency branch, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/08/28
- Re: the state of the concurrency branch, Stefan Monnier, 2013/08/28
- Re: the state of the concurrency branch, Tom Tromey, 2013/08/28
- Re: the state of the concurrency branch, Stefan Monnier, 2013/08/28
- Re: the state of the concurrency branch, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/08/28
- Re: the state of the concurrency branch, Tom Tromey, 2013/08/28