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Re: [Chicken-users] Re: An alternative thread system?


From: John Cowan
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Re: An alternative thread system?
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:56:56 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

Aleksej Saushev scripsit:

> Have you ever used operating system with no MMU? Processes and
> threads are the same in relevant parts here.  There's no
> difference in behaviour of multiple processes and multiple
> threads, in both cases you see deadlocks, races and contention.
> All relevant mechanisms are just the same.

Well, certainly: in that case, the so-called "processes" are threads
and have all the problems of threads.

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