Re: [Chicken-users] To whom it may concern: Working on TinT

[Kon Lovett]

On Feb 21, 2006, at 1:27 PM, address@hidden wrote:

> > I am working on TinT (Tint is not Termite), a Chicken specific  
> > Termite workalike.
> > Alike in the sense that is generally shares syntax & semantics,  
> > but I feel under
> > no constraint to be 100% faithful. (How could I be, Termite is  
> > still evolving.)
>
> Hurrah!  I've actually been lurking on the gambit & chicken lists  
> to see if anyone would try something like this...

Pretty clear (to me) I'm not trying your interest.

> Has anyone used chicken for multiprocessor systems?

Only at the OS process level.

> I.e. with low-level threading that can take advantage of dual-core  
> systems.
> (this could be fun to integrate with Henry Baker's EGAL paper  
> (http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/ObjectIdentity.html) and his  
> Cheney-on-the-MTA paper that CHICKEN already implements... for  
> certain values of "fun" :)

You know this would be a different language. Very "fun", yes ;).

> I know multi-core support is one of Erlang's goals for this-coming  
> year, and there have been some requests on the Gambit list for this  
> lately, but I haven't found too many systems (scheme or otherwise)  
> supporting this "now".

And I'm not one of them. Sorry. But the future beckons.

> cheers,
> Daniel Faken
>
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