[Chicken-users] newbie thread questions?

[Basile STARYNKEVITCH]

Hello All


(my second mail of questions; I'm very newbie!)

Apparently the Chicken thread package is continuation based and does not 
use pthread hence is not able to take of profit of several cores running 
several pthreads in the same unix process.

Are there any Chicken packages which are blocking? More specifically, 
can I run, using the http package, both HTTP client & HTTP server & some 
other user code without being blocked by a slow system call?

Can I suppose that every chicken thread syncrhonisation primitives (in 
particular mutex) are very cheap? My intuition is that they are 
user-level function without any system calls (ie to futex) inside!

Thanks for reading.

Regards


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