I'm afraid I don't know anything about it then. I doubt it's in Guile now. Best, Noah
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 2:13 AM, <eact...@aol.com> wrote: > QT stands for QuickThreads, and in some cases is a massive speed > improvement. There was a technical paper on this back in the 94 called > "Tools and Techniques for Building Fast Portable Thread Packages". > On an x86-architecture this speeds up SystemC by a factor of 40 (Linux > Ubuntu). And I believe it will increase the arm speed by at least 500% for > my use case. Since the content switch isn’t that big for the arm having > less registers to save compared to the x86. > So QT should always be considered if available, but somehow it seems to > pass into oblivion. > Cheers > eactor > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Noah Lavine <noah.b.lav...@gmail.com> > To: eactors <eact...@aol.com> > Cc: 14672 <14...@debbugs.gnu.org> > Sent: Thu, Jun 20, 2013 11:25 pm > Subject: Re: bug#14672: QT port for ARM within guile > > Hello, > > Excuse my ignorance, but what is a "QT"? I can tell you're not referring > to the widget toolkit. > > Also, I believe Guile uses pthreads on most platforms, so if you're > running Linux on ARM (which is the common case on ARM nowadays, I think), > you should have threads. Unless you want userspace threads. > > Best, > Noah > > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 12:07 AM, <eact...@aol.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> I found a quick thread implementation for ARM within the guile svn: ( >> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=guile.git;a=tree;f=qt;h=c98346f9299df235964738dbf4b87da9806c9f52;hb=72e4a3b1df86fdfca752221716c3e3f5573ff6a5 >> >> Hope you can help me with this. Do you know what the status of this >> port was? Did it work? I would like to add a QT for ARM into the SystemC >> Open Source Project and I’m looking for a good starting point. >> >> Many Thanks in advance >> eactor >> >> > >
