Re: thread safe functions

2010-08-28 Thread Ken Raeburn
On Aug 28, 2010, at 15:20, Andy Wingo wrote: >> Unfortunately this applies to some internals of the implementation too. >> For example, "set-object-property!" and friends use a hash table and >> assoc lists internally. > > Fixed, thanks. > >> scm_c_issue_deprecation_warning and scm_c_register_ext

Re: postpone discussion.

2010-08-28 Thread Stefan Israelsson Tampe
On Saturday, August 28, 2010 07:26:06 pm you wrote: > On Sun 15 Aug 2010 06:26, Stefan Israelsson Tampe writes: > > Probably for some interesting applications there will be a hughe > > demand on memory. And Keeping the redo tree slim can have a great cost > > benefit. I believe it is possible to

Re: thread safe functions

2010-08-28 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Ken, On Sat 21 Aug 2010 17:57, Ken Raeburn writes: > On Aug 18, 2010, at 11:56, Andy Wingo wrote (quoting the manual): >> Thus, you need to put in additional synchronizations when multiple >> threads want to use a single hashtable, or any other mutable Scheme >>object. > > Unfortunately t

Re: Updated Guile Tutorial

2010-08-28 Thread Andy Wingo
Heya Daniel, On Sat 21 Aug 2010 07:38, Daniel Kraft writes: > from my point of view, I'd be glad if you replaced the old tutorial with > my version I have done so on the web site, thanks. > (and included it into the source distro / manual -- feel free > to do the copyright assignment and licen

Re: debian squeeze/sid - guile-master-20100617 fails

2010-08-28 Thread Andy Wingo
On Wed 18 Aug 2010 15:27, Mark H Weaver writes: > In my case, the problem was that I had set PKG_CONFIG=true while running > configure. I did this because it was recommended by the README in the > section on setting the BDW_GC_* variables. > > Perhaps that was David's problem as well? Perhaps!

Re: ideas for guile prolog

2010-08-28 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Stefan, On Wed 11 Aug 2010 14:35, Stefan Israelsson Tampe writes: > The special thing with this situation is that you may fill up your entire Ram > with continuations so it would be nice to compact them tree wise and also > facilitate reasonable fast execution deducing the state before exe

Re: [PATCH] Support for SRFI 27

2010-08-28 Thread Andy Wingo
On Sun 15 Aug 2010 07:57, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hello! > > Andreas Rottmann writes: > >> Attached is my take on adding SRFI 27 "Sources of Random Bits". > > Nice! Looks good to me. Could you also add a node to > doc/ref/srfi-modules.texi? Yes, looks quite good to me! Just a

Re: [PATCH] Some R6RS fixes

2010-08-28 Thread Andy Wingo
On Sat 14 Aug 2010 09:12, Andreas Rottmann writes: > Some smallish fixes to the (rnrs ...) modules. Applied, thanks. Andy -- http://wingolog.org/

Re: postpone discussion.

2010-08-28 Thread Andy Wingo
On Sun 15 Aug 2010 06:26, Stefan Israelsson Tampe writes: > Probably for some interesting applications there will be a hughe > demand on memory. And Keeping the redo tree slim can have a great cost > benefit. I believe it is possible to save like 4x in space. And > certaily 2x if guile was on a