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Re: Recursive mutexes?
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Thomas Bushnell, BSG |
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Re: Recursive mutexes? |
Date: |
26 Oct 2002 16:26:47 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:
> In my "dream scheme" system, I'm thinking they aren't worth the
> effort. They slow down access to the store and complicate
> programming. I don't even want to think about how to reconcile them
> with continuations, dynamic-wind, or fluids.
It seems to me that we should not decide that a problem is too hard to
solve well before trying.
> I do want multiple interpreters (without a shared store) in separate
> threads. I do want low-level routines running in separate threads
> (e.g., give a CPU to I/O or to reving cellular automata generations).
> But I'm having trouble seeing Scheme semantics as other than "optimal
> for SISD".
How will these different interpreters share data?
Re: Recursive mutexes?, Rob Browning, 2002/10/26
Re: Recursive mutexes?, Tom Lord, 2002/10/26
Re: Recursive mutexes?, Marius Vollmer, 2002/10/26