> I've got an operational question: The description seems to indicate > that the sheer presence of a parameter leads to the allocation of > storage in each thread, whether the thread accesses the parameter or > not. Does this mean that, the more live parameters there are in the > system, the more expensive threads become?
In implementation, yes. But my thread system is based on pthreads, and you'd have to have quite a few parameters to notice the difference in thread-creation or memory overhead. Applications don't typically use very many thread parameters in any case. Kent _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
