Re: mt questions

[Vladimir T. <vtz...@gm...>]

Let's have kind of plan. Here is what i have in mind.

* Study common lisp hashtables (
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/18_.htm) and clisp
implementation in hashtabl.d (there are few extensions to the above
standard, e.g. weak relations).
* Study and understand lock free hash table (
http://www.azulsystems.com/events/javaone_2007/2007_LockFreeHash.pdf).
Check clozure implementation. IIRC, you will need cas & mutex for this.
* Implement cas and use it instead of testandset. Required mutex
implementations are available.
* Start coding and replacing hashtabl.d implementation

Meanwhile you will get common with clisp (some) internals.

As for you questions:

1. Always use mercurial checkout when consulting code. The link above is to
old cvs repo that was not updated for quite some time.
2. win32 condition variables - it will be nice to use native ones but this
is not the goal of the project. I would not put too much efforts on this at
that stage.
3. There is no need to have 'full grasp' of mutex internals in order to use
it. package.d is a place to consult for the usage.

Vlad