Re: ice-9 thread-pool

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Wed 08 Feb 2012 05:03, Nala Ginrut <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Well, what if I want to avoid to create new thread repeatedly?
>> I mean recycle or pre-allocate a bunch of threads, then reuse them.
>> How can I reuse a thread-object in Guile?
>
> If I understand you correctly, you would use a thread pool.  You'd build
> it yourself.  (Of course, if this patch goes in, you'd use it instead.)

Heheh.  :-)

I was asking this question because I view thread pools as an
implementation technique, not as an API.

The API would be futures for computation, and something different for
asynchronous I/O.  For example, Oleg K. shows a nice approach to that
similar to futures at <http://okmij.org/ftp/meta-future/>.

Thanks,
Ludo’.