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Re: Scheme binding for pthreads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Stark)
Wed Nov 1 18:52:50 1995
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 18:31:15 -0500
From: Greg Stark <gsstark@MIT.EDU>
To: grib@cs.utexas.edu
Cc: beshers@cs.columbia.edu, pthreads@MIT.EDU, gel@cygnus.com
In-Reply-To: <199511012042.OAA10721@cascade.cs.utexas.edu> (grib@cs.utexas.edu)
> Ability to handle continuations and asynchronous signals correctly implies
> that libguile is reentrant, so I just gave it a go.
reentrant != thread-safe
if preventing any thread from running while another thread is garbage
collecting is acceptable then having a thread raise its priority while garbage
collecting and lower it when finished might be adequate. Probably, there are
other unthread-safe parts as well though.
greg
