Re: should GOOPS be built-in?

[Russell McManus <russell dot mcmanus at msdw dot com>]

Greg Harvey <Greg.Harvey@thezone.net> writes:

> I'd expect, tho, that most people aren't too concerned about
> preemptive threading (probably because most of us are running on
> single cpu systems, so we'd end up with worse performance on account
> of it ;).  It would definately be a good thing, but it's also a lot
> of work (guile is barely coop safe in places) and it isn't as
> critical as some of guile's other shortcomings. That being said, I
> fully encourage anybody interested in this to go to it :)

Well, I'm interested in real threads, for one.  MzScheme and Rice
Scheme both seem to have them, and I *need* them for some projects at
work on multi-cpu Suns.

And BTW, there was a patch posted to the list a long time ago that
made a good initial attempt at putting real thread support.  This is
another place where patches have been ignored.

-russ

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