l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Perhaps the right thing would be to just fix SRFI-45 promises to be > thread-safe, no?
This would slow down the fastest implementation of promises we could hope for by an order of magnitude, at least on non-Intel platforms. This in turn would severely limit the set of applications for which SRFI-45 promises and SRFI-41 streams would be efficient enough to consider. If most of the Guile community wants to persue this strategy of building thread synchronization into primitives that could otherwise be extremely cheap, then I'd better withdraw from this community. Mark