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Subject: Re: Symbolic: A doomed effort, or it's time to get my lead-lined jockstr

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:49:49 02/17/04

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On February 17, 2004 at 08:02:55, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On February 16, 2004 at 15:38:01, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>Yes.  For example.  Threads?  How in lisp?
>
>What do threads have to do with this discussion?  I don't see how Lisp
>differs from C in this respect.  In both cases, threads are not part of
>the ANSI standard, but they are included in all implementations worth
>mentioning, usually in a semi-portable way.
>
>Tord

threads are important because I use them to do a parallel search.  I am talking
about a general-purpose solution that lets me do everything I currently am doing
in C.  Threads I am doing.  If I can't write a threaded application in LISP then
it will _never_ get any consideration from me, as threads are the future, no
threads is the past...

I didn't use threads in Lisp 15 years ago as there were few SMP machines around
except for the Cray where no one did lisp programming.  But today, SMP is
everywhere.  AMD is going to release a dual-cpu chip before long...




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