Re: Re: RFC rampage

On Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 04:23 PM, Erik Enge wrote:

> This sounds nice.  What do you mean by processes?  Threads?  Forking?
> Do you know what implementations it will currently run on?
>

Here is what the mp package exports which should provide a general idea 
on what it does:

    current-process
    interrrupt-process
    lock
    make-process
    make-process-lock
    process-add-run-reason
    process-allow-schedule
    process-kill
    process-name
    process-preset
    process-property-list
    process-revoke-run-reason
    process-run-function
    process-run-reasons
    process-wait
    with-process-lock
    with-timeout
    without-interrupts
    without-scheduling


Current platforms for acl-compat (and Portable AllegroServe) include 
LispWorks, CMUCL, OpenMCL, and MCL. I'm not sure of the implementation 
status, but there are also folders in acl-compat for SBL, CLisp, 
Corman, and SCL. And of course everything that uses acl-compat will 
hopefully run on ACL :).

> There are a number of other aspects of the code which makes me not want
> to work with it, but these are more subjective opinions (if*, using
> comments instead of docstrings, etc).

I agree, some of it could be much better (I hate if*). But open source 
gives you the option to improve rather than starting from scratch.

Best,

John DeSoi, Ph.D.