[Ecls-list] Threads on MacOSX (and others)

[Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll]

bernard tatin wrote:

> I have made very few tests. I am trying to do one consistent. If you 
> already have somthing which can test threads, I wil be glad to try it. 
> Sometimes my english is poor, what I mean is a hard test which can 
> prove that threads and locks works fine.

I do not have a hard test, but a simple one is to launch a thread and 
tell it to stop. See the example below.

Further testing is definitely required, not only for the MacOSX port, 
but for all ports which support threads. There might be yet some race 
conditions around. For instance in the reader.

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 > (mp::process-run-function 'test
    #'(lambda ()
        (loop (sleep 3)
              (princ "Thread awaken... and going to sleep")
              (terpri)
              )))
#<process 081b7820>
Thread awaken... and going to sleep
Thread awaken... and going to sleep
Thread awaken... and going to sleep
Thread awaken... and going to sleep
Thread awaken... and going to sleep
Thread awaken... and going to sleep
[... more lines ommited ...]
 > (mp::process-kill *)
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