"Bill Schottstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On the race condition, my vage recollection > is that the "is this safe?" question was mine,
Sorry if I tried to claim it when it was yours. :-) Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In that case, we need to fix the more-like-it stuff. Can you point out > some of those cases? I don't have any on my crib list, FWIW. I remember symbol interning looked worrying, unless that already got some attention. > Correct macros would extract both num and den atomically > into temporary values. 2-word atomic read/write might be possible on i386 with the mmx or floating point instructions, though a bit painful to setup. Elsewhere you could be in the realm of mutexes :(. > Would it be an option to link GUILE to glib? That's the start of a slippery slope. First it's "oh, lets use a bit of glib", then it's "oh, gtk does nice menus", then it's "lets get the gnome widgets", then before you know it your program won't even run outside 100Mb of gnome desktop! :-) _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel
