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

[Peter Seibel]

Luke Gorrie <luke at bluetail.com> writes:

> Helmut Eller <e9626484 at stud3.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
> 
> > One idea is that we include a "stack descriptor" in each message.  A
> > stack descriptor could be something like (idle eval debugging) or a
> > string with the initial letters of the states "IED".
> 
> I haven't thought this through yet -- busily cleaning out my office in
> preparation for a move and fun stuff like that :-). But lemme float an
> idea I had been thinking of:
> 
> Suppose we designate that Lisp has the "master" state and Emacs is
> essentially a replica, so race conditions are resolved by Emacs
> backing off its changes and syncing with Lisp. A problem statement is
> then:

What do you guys mean by "race condition"? (In the context of SLIME,
that is--I know what a race condition is in general.)

-Peter

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Peter Seibel                                      peter at javamonkey.com

         Lisp is the red pill. -- John Fraser, comp.lang.lisp