[plt-scheme] single OS thread

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 16 13:56:56 EDT 2007

At Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:50:54 -0400, Robert Nikander wrote:
> I'm trying to write Cocoa app using the FFI, but it's painful,  
> because PLT is all in one OS thread, and Cocoa is finicky about  
> getting called from non-event-loop threads.  So I'm wondering, has  
> anything changed since this post in 2005?  Still no plans for  
> multiple OS threads?
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.scheme.plt/9222

Still no plans for multiple OS threads.

We would like to support true parallelism eventually, but that
parallelism is unlikely to support shared memory for parallel tasks.

Matthew



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