On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 02:28:29PM -0400, Brian Adkins wrote: > On Jul 17, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Brian Adkins wrote: > > On Jul 17, 2014, at 1:26 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote: > >> We wanted to avoid multiple processes because OSes don't provide great > >> facilities for managing them and communicating between them. > > > > Maybe I'm confused. I thought creating a new Place involved creating a new > > process with the Racket VM, to run in parallel (potentially on a different > > core) with the original process. Is the "new Racket instance" running in > > the same process as the original? That's how I read the following: > > > > "The place form creates a place, which is effectively a new Racket instance > > that can run in parallel to other places, including the initial place. " > > > > Maybe wording like "which is effectively" leaves too much to the > > imagination. Do Places run in OS scheduled threads? > > Ha. I'm watching the video Asumu posted, and right after posting the above to > the list, within a couple seconds, you explain in the video that Places are > in the same OS process :) > > It might be worth making that clear in the documentation. I expect many > people who are interested to read about parallelism in Racket may also be > interested in some of the implementation details as they pertain to > efficiency.
In the same OS process, yes, but in the same OS thread? -- hendrik ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
