Lars Bergstrom <lars@Godzilla.cs.nwu.edu> wrote:
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| Michel Schinz <michel.schinz@csem.ch> wrote:
| >1. if you call a blocking OS function, all your threads will be
| > blocked,
|
| Can't speak for the others, but I know that scheme48 on *NIX systems
| and 'the system formerly known as scheme48' which runs on Windows only
| use non-blocking I/O calls -- meaning that the individual VM thread
| (scheme-level) will 'block' until input becomes available if you try
| to read/write on a port/channel that isn't 'ready', but it won't
| affect any of your other threads.
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The same is true for MzScheme, which uses non-blocking I/O & "select()"
[at least, under Unix] in its thread system.
-Rob
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