[gambit-list] Multi-process

Guillaume Cartier gcartier at jazzscheme.org
Sun Oct 5 19:18:48 EDT 2008


I was having a discusion with someone about Gambit and he asked me the
following question :


>  One issue...from the Gambit threading documentation.
>
> "Gambit supports the execution of multiple Scheme threads. These
> threads are managed entirely by Gambit's runtime and are not related
> to the host operating system's threads. Gambit's runtime does not
> currently take advantage of multiprocessors (i.e. at most one thread
> is running)."
>
> I really do need multiprocessor support as computer graphics gets a
> pretty linear speedup on multiple CPUs. Do know if Gambit can, like
> Lispworks, at least have calls into foreign functions running on
> multiple CPUs?
>

Does Gambit support that model like Lispworks?
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