[Sbcl-devel] Re: SBCL

[Thomas F. B. <tfb@OCF.Berkeley.EDU>]

William Harold Newman writes:
 > On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 02:49:46PM -0700, Jose Faria wrote:
 > > I really need to know if you plan on adding real 
 > > multiprocessing suport to your lisp, and if yes, when do 
 > > you plan to do it?
 > 
 > I personally do not have any concrete plans to add multiprocessing
 > support to SBCL. I have enough higher priorities to keep me busy for
 > years:
 >   * bug fixes and improved ANSI compliance
 >   * performance improvement of existing functionality
 >   * new features other than MP; especially support for DYNAMIC-EXTENT
 > 
 > However, Dan Barlow has been working on multiprocessing support. I'm
 > planning to merge his patches, but don't know what schedule is likely.
 > You can read the sbcl-devel archives, or ask on the list, for more
 > details on what he's done and plans to do.

FWIW, sometime during the next year, a friend and I are going to add
scheduler activations to Linux.  Once that's done enough to be usable,
I'm planning on adding activation-based multiprocessing to SBCL.
Hopefully Dan Barlow's work will have made mine easier :).  I'm
mentioning this mostly because folks on this list might find it
interesting.  I don't expect to have an activation-based
multiprocessing SBCL working for probably a couple years.