From: Nikodemus S. <nik...@ra...> - 2008-11-04 10:39:31
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On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Daniel Pezely <dp...@gm...> wrote: > Brian Mastenbrook wrote: >> Which platforms should have SB-THREAD enabled in binary releases? When >> I build SBCL for upload to SourceForge, I enable SB-THREAD on Linux/ >> x86 and Linux/x86-64, but not on platforms that use lutexes (Darwin, >> FreeBSD, and Solaris). Is this in line with what other maintainers do, >> and is it a reasonable policy? Are threads on Darwin stable enough >> that releases should be built with threads? > > > Please enable threads by default on Darwin and FreeBSD. > > Threads on MacOSX 10.5 and FreeBSD 7.0 (both x86-64) seem very stable, > including under certain type of sustainable stress/load testing. I am reluctant to enable threads on Darwin by default as long as the test suite fares as badly as it does. Assuming there are no such problems on FreeBSd, that's fine by me. On Linux building with threads by default seems like a sensible thing. Cheers, -- Nikodemus |