Re: Status of Scheme 48?

Tim Čas <[email protected]> writes:

> I'm considering using Scheme 48 in an embedded application (specifically,
> in my game engine), but I would like to know its status -- primarily
> whether it is still actively developed or not?

It is: However, I'm running pretty late cutting the next release.  I'll
make another stab at it next week.  Until then, you're much better off
running the development branch than the 1.8 release:

http://s48.org/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/s48

> Furthermore, I would like to know how well Scheme 48 works in threaded
> applications -- I take it the VM does not have any facilities for
> simultaneous operation in multiple threads?

The VM itself runs in a single OS thread.  There's no problem using it
in an application that runs in multiple threads, but one has to be
careful - as always with this kind of setup - to ensure that the
interaction between the two always works within the Scheme 48 OS thread.
(There's a branch with a parallel version of Scheme 48 by David
Frese waiting to be merged one day.)

Hope that helps.

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
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