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author | Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de> | 2002-10-16 16:36:29 +0000 |
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committer | Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de> | 2002-10-16 16:36:29 +0000 |
commit | f0b4d944b4da08be29c9f647b2b61acf5ed9c922 (patch) | |
tree | c92910d2f70e16c8a90db7d4b808202d11fd49a5 | |
parent | 2794cb50730ce1810984bcb239b88dd3bac2ee1e (diff) | |
download | guile-f0b4d944b4da08be29c9f647b2b61acf5ed9c922.tar.gz |
Added blurb about "null" threads.
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@@ -8,6 +8,20 @@ Changes since the stable branch: * Changes to the distribution +** There is a new thread implementation option: "null". + +When you configure "--with-threads=null", you will get the usual +threading API (call-with-new-thread, make-mutex, etc), but you can't +actually create new threads. + +The short term plan is to remove the support for --with-threads=no +completely so that one doesn't need to special case as much when +writing code that needs to be thread-aware but should also work +without threads. + +The long term plan is to make the selection of a thread implementation +a run-time option, not a configure time option. + ** Guile now includes its own version of libltdl. We now use a modified version of libltdl that allows us to make |