Re: [Guile-commits] GNU Guile branch, stable-2.0, updated. v2.0.1-92-gf4e45e9

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hey!

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Wed 08 Jun 2011 23:05, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> "Andy Wingo" <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>>    "Return a new future for THUNK.  Execution may start at any point
>>>  concurrently, or it can start at the time when the returned future is
>>>  touched."
>>> +  (create-workers!)
>>
>> Wouldn't it be more efficient to instead do:
>>
>>   (if (null? %workers)
>>       (%create-workers!))
>>
>> Once the workers are created, that would leave 0 function calls.
>
> Possibly, but isn't there a race condition if you do that though?

Oops, you’re right, sorry.

Thanks,
Ludo’.