Re: [Chicken-users] General questions about Chicken

[Chris Double]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 12:03, Jan Rychter wrote:
>   -- I saw that SWIG support for Chicken seems to be coming. How
>      advanced is that?

It works quite well. You can get it from the current SWIG distribution. You 
may need to apply one small patch to fix a bug, detailed here:

http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2003-05/msg00021.html

>   -- is there an interface to GTK+ and/or Gnome in the works?

There is a GTK+ V2 bindning here:

http://homepages.kcbbs.gen.nz/~tonyg/chicken/

I'm not sure how 'up to date' it is though.

>   -- how are threads implemented? Are they done within Chicken (what
>      some call 'lightweight'), or can they be OS threads on Linux? In
>      particular, I'm worried about threads and blocking I/O: if they all
>      block, their utility is greatly reduced.

They are lightweight threads built upon continuations. The i/o routines are 
written such that they do not block threads.

Chris.