Re: [Chicken-users] simple threading

[Matthew David Parker]

Yeah, I could pass it through files or TCP or something, but that seems a
bit excessive.

On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Graham Fawcett wrote:

> On 6/16/06, Matthew David Parker <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > I think SRFI-18 might not be useful to me, because the computationally
> > intensive part is calling some C function to manipulate the image, and I
> > wouldn't want to put "thread-yield!" into the C function.
>
> Could you run the computationally intensive part in a separate process
> (not a forked child) and pass the images to it using an IPC mechanism
> (pipes, fifos, shared-memory)?
>
> Graham
>