[Gardeners] Shared State Concurrency specification.

[Duncan Rose]

On Sunday, July 16, 2006, at 02:07  pm, Marco Monteiro wrote:

> The document in the link is not yet ready for prime time, but I've been
> working on it for a while and I need feedback. Please comment.
>

I'm certainly not a thread expert, so I feel that much of the document 
is at a lower level than I'm competent to comment on. However I have a 
couple of observations / questions:

1. I don't see any 'join' like functionality; not sure if this might be 
wanted.
2. The document talks about global values of special variables being 
shared between threads. I don't believe that this is the way OpenMCL 
works at least, and I'm not sure that sharing these is a good idea (for 
example, if I start two REPLs and setf *read-base* in one, should the 
other automatically reflect this change?).
3. Not sure if it makes any difference whatsoever, but can the 
functional argument to SPAWN-THREAD be a closure? (I'm not sure this 
matters much either).

(Other than that?) the document looks reasonable to me (perhaps I would 
argue about some function names, but that is rather an irrelevance I 
think).

-Duncan


> http://bragatel.pt/masm/ssc-spec.pdf
>
> Thank you.
>
> Marco
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