Re: [ANN] Guile-Parallel 1.0.0 released

[Zelphir Kaltstahl]

Hello Olivier!

On 12/31/22 04:55, Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions wrote:
> Hi Guilers,
>
> I'm happy to announce the first release of guile-parallel.  A library
> that offers primitives for parallelization of your programs.
>
> Project page: <https://git.sr.ht/~old/guile-parallel>
>
> List of features:
>
>   - Userspace threads (jobs schedulers)
>
>   - Safe dynamic-wind for all types of threads (kernel and userspace)
>
>   - sleep, usleep and nsleep for all types of threads
>
>   - (ice-9 atomic) extensions, e.g. atomic counters
>
>   - (ice-9 q) wrapper, i.e. safe for all types of threads
>
>   - Barriers à la Pthread
>
>   - Condition variables, mutexes and semaphores for kernel and userspace
>     threads
>
>   - Parallel vector-map vector-count, vector-sort, vector-map-reduce
>
> Next features:
>
>   - Asynchronous I/O
>
>   - Channels à la Go with a select syntax (maybe?)
>
> If there're interests, usages or requests for it, please let me know!  I
> might add it to Guix if some find it useful.
>
> Regards,
> old

I looked at the examples in the repository a bit and it looks impressive!

Maybe I can already make use of it in coming AoC puzzles.

I am currently a bit confused about where the line is between a good use-case 
for guile-parallel and guile-fibers. Or whether they could work well together or 
the people making them should work together ; )

Regards,
Zelphir

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