On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 04:17:42PM +0200, Alex Queiroz wrote:
Hallo,
Now that even smartphones get dual-core processors, I amwondering how can we use Gambit-C in a way to take advantage of that. Desktop machines with eight cores will be in widespread use soon. I know there is Termite but AFAIK it works by exchaging messages between different processes, not threads in the same process. Is anybody working on some solution for this?
I believe that Modula 3 now implements multithreading using pthreads, and they have a garbage collector. I'm currently investigating how their implementation handles garbage collection. Does it stop the world? Or does it manage collector concurrency.
It might be possible to have gambit-generated C code live on top of part of the Modula 3 run-time system. Or learn how they do it all in detail and reimplement some of that stuff for Gambit. Or maybe have a gambit-modula3?
--- hendrik
Cheers,
-alex http://www.artisancoder.com/ _______________________________________________ Gambit-list mailing list Gambit-list@iro.umontreal.ca https://webmail.iro.umontreal.ca/mailman/listinfo/gambit-list