Re: [Chicken-users] simple threading

[Joerg F. Wittenberger]

Hi Felix,

I've been contemplating...could chicken include some basic support for
native thread communication?

rscheme has these C functions

void rscheme_intr_call0( obj thunk );
void rscheme_intr_call1( obj proc, obj arg );
void rscheme_intr_call2( obj proc, obj arg1, obj arg2 );

which basically enqueue a "virtual" signal, which is then processed
similar to system level signals.

BTW: I feel that it might be safer/easier and just enough to provide
only the first (thunk) version.

Am Freitag, den 16.06.2006, 15:28 -0400 schrieb John Cowan:
Matthew David Parker scripsit:
> 
> > Does anyone know a clever solution to my problem?
> 
> What you need is OS-level threads (not Chicken-level threads or
> OS-level
> processes), but Chicken does not support them.  It's possible that
> you
> could invoke an OS-specific threading package to create such
> threads,
> though they wouldn't be able to run Chicken code AFAICT, only C
> code.
> 
> (felix?)
>