Re: threading



On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:51:11 +0100, Pascal Bourguignon wrote:


You can overcome it writing a multi-threaded virtual machine, and a
compiler for your multi-threaded lisp source to this multi-threaded
virtual machine.

Or perhaps asking the nice people at CLISP to add threads to their virtual
machine...

Matt

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