[gambit-list] Google Summer of Code
Andrew Lentvorski
bsder at allcaps.org
Tue Mar 11 15:40:59 EDT 2008
Christian Jaeger wrote:
> From what I've seen, the experiences of the GHC implementors working on
> a parallel system (and at first, iirc, a concurrent GC?) may be
> worthwhile readings.
How does Erlang handle this? The latest versions handle
multicore/multiprocessor if I remember correctly.
> BTW the chicken people have also had some interesting discussion about
> GSoC participation in the last few days (don't be sad about the
> difference in volume), also including a few points about threading.
> Gambit does have a better chance of doing fancy stuff with garbage
> collection (because of it handling the continuation stack explicitely),
> of course.
Is there some documentation about this somewhere? I'd love to read it.
>> - web framework
>>
>
> Should I mentor on this?
> I've actually got some actual professional (well, that doesn't mean
> particularly successful) experience in this area (with an XML
> background). But I'd rather prefer having a module system done before
> continuing writing suboptimally modularized code as I did up to now.
I'm not sure a "web framework" is that great an idea. "Frameworks" work
best when they are scratching a particular itch. In addition, any good
"web framework" for Scheme is likely to be not very Gambit specific.
-a
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