> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:11:30 +0300
> From: "Vladimir Tzankov" <vtzankov@...>
> Subject: Re: CLISP multithreading (patch included)
> To: "Reini Urban" <rurban@...>
> Cc: clisp-devel@...
> Message-ID: <2295f2fa0807281211pd91e065t6eb1208b8a6e9653@...>
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> Hi Reini,
>
> > Vladimir Tzankov schrieb:
> >>
> >> First of all this is very long mail about multithreading in CLISP and
> >> it's implementation.
> >
> > BTW: I hope you know that you missed around $4500 USD
> > if you are young enough to be a student.
> > This was a potential Google Summer of Code project, and one of the hardest.
> > Nobody applied for it.
>
> I've not missed anything - for some years I am not a student anymore :).
> (for some years I have been using clisp and liked it - now with the
> multicore cpu-s it will be nice to have threads - not sure how i'll
> progress - now studying the GC implementation)
Have a look at this paper:
http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~erez/Papers/parallel-compaction.ps
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