Re: Re: RFC rampage

Just to be clear, these "processes" are what you would call threads -- 
processes share a single Lisp image and address space -- not Unix 
processes.  The terminology and interface comes from the Lisp Machine.

Tim

On Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 07:30  PM, John DeSoi wrote:

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