[Sbcl-devel] sbcl native threads: It runs!

[Daniel B. <da...@te...>]

It doesn't, admittedly, do much useful yet, but the experimental
thread branch (0.7.9.54.thread.11, as soon as I get to checking it
in) has just created a second thread which toggles the value of a
global variable in a manner visible to the calling thread

http://ww.telent.net/diary/2002/12/#12.13933 for the session
transcript

Remaining still to do: almost everything, but mostly locking.
Allocation is in theory parallelisable for anything up to two pages,
but thereafter needs locks adding in large parts of gencgc.  GC
itself, of course, must stop all threads (at least any of them that
want to allocate) and presently doesn't, and the rest of the sbcl code
hasn't even been _looked at_ (well, not by me anyway) for thread
safety.  Expect to hit problems if you want, for example, threads that
do any kind of IO

But I thought this was a landmark worth sharing anyway :-)


-dan

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