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Re: [guile-2.2] threads


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: [guile-2.2] threads
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2017 20:17:44 +0200
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Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> writes:

> LilyPond has no thread-safety anywhere. It would be actively harmful
> if anybody ever tried to run something on a different thread.

The Boehm GC garbage collector defaults to running in its own thread.
It is set to "Java" collection semantics which separates marking and
finalization phases.

> If anything, you should find a way to forbid importing the threads
> package.

Not sure whether it isn't needed anyhow.

-- 
David Kastrup



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