Threads anyone?

Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] sperber@Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.De
28 Aug 1998 09:36:01 +0200


>>>>> "Rodrigo" == Rodrigo Ventura <yoda@isr.ist.utl.pt> writes:

Rodrigo> Anyway, what I
Rodrigo> want is a strong thread support in a scheme language platform.

Rodrigo>         Here are my options so far:
Rodrigo>                 rscheme -- unusable thread support, at least now
Rodrigo>                 scm -- no threads at all, AFAIK
Rodrigo>                 mit-scheme -- no threads, too complex system
Rodrigo>                 scheme48 -- some thread support

Rodrigo>         Is there anymore scheme implementations with better/working
Rodrigo> thread support?

Thread support in Scheme 48 is pretty complete and transparent.
Moreover, it blends well with the distributed variant of Scheme 48,
Kali.  However, it implements its own thread system rather than going
through an OS thread library.

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Cheers =8-} Mike
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