Re: Concurrency

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Also, I think mutex-unlock should throw some kind of error if the mutex
>> is owned by a different thread.  What do you think of that?
> I think we should consider what will happen when the current cooperative
> threads model will be replaced and threads will run freely.  In that
> case probably we will want to use pthread mutexes, not our
> implementation.

That's a good point.


        Stefan "who really wishes we used higher-level abstractions
                than locks, such as atomic-regions"