From: William H. N. <wil...@ai...> - 2006-05-22 17:52:32
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On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 08:55:28PM -0700, Cyrus Harmon wrote: > Hi William, By the way, I write my name in full in my .signature out of respect for the vastness of the Internet, where I imagine hundreds of other Bill Newmans lurking in wait to be confused with me; but in any smaller universe, such as sbcl-devel, I usually go by "Bill". > We have a bunch of changes on the lutex branch that are nearing > readiness but are not quite there. I'm optimistic that we can get > things in shape for inclusion in time for the 0.9.14 release. Things > seem to be working well on linux (for testing, not that we would > really use lutexes instead of futexes) and Solaris, but there are a > couple of lingering problems on MacOS X, and FreeBSD is quite a ways > off due to OS kernel panics. > > It would be great if folks could take some time to review the changes > on the branch. I'll be sending another email with detailed status of > the lutex branch and the ports that use it, but I figured I'd chime > in while we're doing the month's release planning. sounds good to me (I still spend my time splashing around in the backwaters of serial algorithm issues, and thus I am ill-equipped to evaluate the issues on multithread systems programming in any detail, but to the extent I can see from here, it looks basically good.) -- William Harold Newman <wil...@ai...> PGP key fingerprint 85 CE 1C BA 79 8D 51 8C B9 25 FB EE E0 C3 E5 7C Ubi saeva indignatio ulterius cor lacerare nequit. -- Jonathan Swift's epitaph |