[Ecls-list] Special symbols that might benefit from implicit locking or thread-local bindings

[Matthew Mondor]

On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 05:43:21 -0400
Matthew Mondor <mm_lists at pulsar-zone.net> wrote:

> So I guess the symbols to rebind would be only the ones which are
> likely to be SETQ/SETF via common standard functions rather than via
> LET, such as indeed *PACKAGE* (WITH-PACKAGE would not have needed such,
> but IN-PACKAGE does)...

Also of interest:

http://trac.common-lisp.net/bordeaux-threads/wiki/ApiDocumentation
(especially on MAKE-THREAD and *DEFAULT-SPECIAL-BINDINGS*)

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:l8_kDzNjbMEJ:www.cormanlisp.com/Multi-threaded%2520Lisp.ppt+common+lisp+thread-local+bindings+*package*&hl=en

The new week is already starting...
-- 
Matt