Thanks a lot for your reply, and especially, for all the effort put into constantly improving Gambit. 


On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Marc Feeley <feeley@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
I am working on multithreading support and hope to have it working by the end of the summer.  A summer student will be helping out on this project.

Marc

On 2012-12-21, at 6:39 AM, Álvaro Castro-Castilla <alvaro.castro.castilla@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Ok, I know this has been asked before.
>
> What are the perspectives of Gambit supporting native threading?
>
> I remember that Marc made some tests to see how much the code performance would be affected due to global variables access indirection. However, native threading, at least basic facilities, are a must for programming languagues nowadays. Termite, IPC or network can't be really used for things like games.
>
> I think this is a hard problem, of course, and if I would be of any help I'd like to, although I don't have much experience implementing compilers myself.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Álvaro
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