[slime-devel] Re: Partial multiprocessing support on CMUCL

[Luke Gorrie]

Luke Gorrie <luke at bluetail.com> writes:

> I asked some guys at work how to do this. It turns out that mutexes
> are enough, and it can be done without those SUSPEND/RESUME primitives
> or monitors. "Bread and butter POSIX threads stuff."
> 
> The algorithm is this:

... *ahem*, the algorithm I described is just an implementation of a
monitor using a mutex. Oops :-)

I'll shush up and do some more experimentation, and also look into
what it would take to do it the way Gary Byers described instead.

Cheers,
Luke