[Ecls-list] Poll about removal of a feature

Gabriel Dos Reis gdr at integrable-solutions.net
Wed Feb 3 22:01:00 UTC 2010


On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
<juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote:
> ... if it can be called so.
> SBCL has opted to make all make all structures unprotected against
> concurrent access. That means hashtables, arrays, and other structures have
> to be managed by the user taking into account the fact that different
> threads may try to read / write to them. In other words, those structures do
> not have mutexes, locks, semaphores, etc.
> I would like to copy that idea in ECL, cleaning up and simplifying the
> hashtables code.

I believe it is a very sensible idea. I'm all for it.

-- Gaby




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