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Re: [PATCH] Add preliminary versions of the R7RS libraries along with do


From: Freja Nordsiek
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add preliminary versions of the R7RS libraries along with documentation and tests
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 19:15:50 +0000

Mark,


Hadn't dug into the internals of ports enough to know that (have only scratched the surface). That is good to know, though. Thank you. Saves work.



Freja

On June 19, 2017 7:13:00 PM GMT+02:00, Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> wrote:
Freja Nordsiek <address@hidden> writes:
Hmm, just realized, to add on top of what you said, method has a major
thread-safety problem if the bytevector output port is accessed from
more than one thread. Definitely need to fix this.

In Guile, port operations are not specified to include built-in thread
synchronization. Thread synchronization is quite expensive on most
platforms, and only needed in a small minority of cases, so it should be
added by the application where needed. Bytevector port operations could
be made quite cheap in a future implementation of Guile with native code
generation, and we should avoid making promises that would add
significant work to inherently inexpensive operations.

Thanks,
Mark

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