[Gardeners] SSC-Spec & Bordeaux-Threads, was Re: Shared State Concurrency specification.

[Marco Antoniotti]

On Jul 20, 2006, at 5:37 PM, Marco Monteiro wrote:

> Marco Antoniotti wrote:
>> Ok.  That will be good.
>>
>> There remain the second problem: what kind of hope do you have to get
>> most implementors on board?  And that includes the commercial ones?
>
> Here is my plan: Get a good, implementable, draft document of the
> possible specification. (To this end, to have an idea of what is
> implementable, I'm working on an implementation for SBCL.) After that,
> get people beating it to shape so that is acceptable to [almost] all
> implementors, including commercial ones. I'm also trying to get some
> weight behind SSC (maybe one or two big names), before approaching the
> commercial implementations, mainly because nobody knows me.

Let me play devil's advocate here.  You have an undefined term in your 
paragraph: implementable.  What is implementable in SBCL (which has 
good thread support to start with) may not be implementable elsewhere 
and the implementors may be reluctant to rework the insides of their 
code.  At a minimum I would try to work out an implementation on a 
platform with non-SBCL thread support.  In that way you will be able to 
see what are some of the problems ahead.

Cheers
--
Marco