On Apr 27, 11:31 pm, David Bolen <db3l....@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm curious - do you know what happens if threading is implemented as > a native OS thread and it's stuck in an I/O operation that is blocked? > How does the Lisp interpreter/runtime gain control again in order to > execute the specified function? I guess on many POSIX-ish > environments, internally generating a SIGALRM to interrupt a system > operation might work, but it would likely have portability problems.
We're arguing to the old argument, who knows better, what the programmer wants: language implementor or the programmer himself. AFAIK, Python community is on former side, while Lisp one -- on the later. As always, there's no right answer. Best regards, Vsevolod -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
