Re: Thread support plan with initial patch

[Mikael Djurfeldt]

Dirk Herrmann <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, NIIBE Yutaka wrote:
> 
> > Mikael Djurfeldt wrote:
> > 
> >  > An application using your pthreads support would then be linked with
> >  > these tree libraries:
> >  > 
> >  >   libguile              providing the Scheme level thread primitives
> >  >   libguilepthreads      providing "glue code" to plug into the thread 
> > interface
> >  >   libpthreads           the POSIX thread library
> > 
> > I see.  I think that it is possible to do that.  I don't know about
> > the perfomance impact, though.
> 
> BTW, just to clarify, an application that does not use threads at all
> still would have to be linked with:
> 
>   libguile
>   libguilenothreads   no threads :-)

Hmm... that implementation is small enough that I think it would be
beneficial just to keep it inside libguile.  (So that using Guile is
simple in the simple case.)