[rdnzl-devel] Re: rdnzl, multiprocessing, Allegro, windows, locking

[Edi Weitz]

On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 23:09:59 -0700, "Charles A. Cox" <cox at franz.com> wrote:

>> > I got a response from Charley Cox that suggests another route is
>> > needed around this, or I guess I will just have to consider
>> > changing my model of how to program.
>> 
>> Yeah, or you change your Lisp implementation... :)
>
>   It looks as if the foreign calls to .net are using the most
> conservative behavior, which is to block out all threads to protect
> the Lisp heap while the foreign call is active.  If this restriction
> is not needed, then it should be a simple matter to remove it in
> port-acl.lisp.
>
>   I will look into this and report back.

Great.  Please note that I'll be away on vacation next week, so if you
send patches after Thursday, I won't be able to make a new RDNZL
release before November.

Thanks,
Edi.