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From: Per Bothner <per@bothner.com>
To: Duncan Mak <duncanmak@gmail.com>,
	kawa mailing list <kawa@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Support for SRFI 18 / 21 (multithreading)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 07:42:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8c0ac236-4d12-f59b-fce5-9573f7bea0c4@bothner.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABgWrqqFk2dSFr2zm4to=EMbbiKMsQr3Viw1sUrAd7mQahCCFA@mail.gmail.com>

On 1/16/19 8:33 PM, Duncan Mak wrote:
> Hello Per,
> 
> I came across SRFI 18 / 21 (I don't really know concretely how the two
> differ), I see that neither is supported in Kawa.
> 
>  From a quick look at the API, I'm guessing that the SRFI API can be
> implemented using the Java threading APIs. Am I missing something?
> 
> Is there a reason that the SRFI is not supported? is it only because no one
> has looked into it, or are there deeper reasons?
> 
> If it is indeed feasible, would an implementation be welcome?

I haven't really looked into those SRFIs.

An implementation would be welcome - especially if it can be done as
a relatively light wrapper on top of Java facilities.
-- 
	--Per Bothner
per@bothner.com   http://per.bothner.com/

      reply	other threads:[~2019-01-17  7:42 UTC|newest]

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2019-01-17  4:34 Duncan Mak
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