[Ecls-list] Threads

[Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll]

Maciek Pasternacki wrote:

>As far as I googled out there is no standard or even semi-standard
>multiprocessing semantics; is there anything we want to conform to, or
>do we just want to make it work good, and let rest of the world
>conform to our superior design? ;)
>  
>
Hehe, I would be happy if ECL indeed was the leader in the field :-)

But no, there are other implementations out there, which try to conform 
to the Lisp Machines multiprocessing capabilities. ECL's own routines 
are a mixture of OpenMCL's, SBCL's and I seem to recall Franz's 
interface. They all share the same semantics, IIRC, but they all copy on 
the original LM whose manuals are in one of these "old stuff" museums in 
internet (Google is your friend).

It would be nice, though, to have this all revised and documented, much 
like OpenMCL's manual, which was a great help in developing ECL's 
support for threads.

Regards,

Juanjo