[Ecls-list] About possible projects

[Marco Antoniotti]

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> Remitente: Alexander S A Kjeldaas <Alexander.Kjeldaas at fast.no>
> > Are you planning on implementing real thread support using a pthreads
> > library, a user-land threads implementation, or something else? The
> > threads support that I have seen documented in the manual looks like
> > user-land threads, but real thread support would be a _lot_ more
> > useful I think.
> 
> I think it would be nice to first get the userland threads working and 
> then move on to the different posix threads of each implementation. That 
> should be the least painful path and it would provide us with a portable 
> implementation of threads for environments without this type of
> things.

As long as the thread interface follows the semi-standard CLIM-SYS
one....

One of the floating criticism of EcoLisp "threads" was that they were
"different" (although interesting).

Cheers

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