Red Daly wrote: > Why do these sections require WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS instead of locking? > WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS is deprecated in Allegro, and in lisps running on > multiple cores, it seems to have no atomicity guarantees that are > immediately relevant to me. > > Quoted below is the Allegro documentation. I'm not sure if > WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS has the same semantics in other lisps:
I don't know about Allegro but on SBCL for example locks and without-interrupts are orthogonal. The latter is all about asynchronous POSIX signals. Leslie -- http://www.linkedin.com/in/polzer _______________________________________________ elephant-devel site list elephant-devel@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/elephant-devel
