Re: [Chicken-users] Anyone up for porting Termite to Chicken?

[Alaric Snell-Pym]

On 20 May 2008, at 3:10 pm, Ivan Raikov wrote:

>   There is already "Erlang-style concurrency" in Chicken via the MPI
> egg.

IIRC there's more to it than that. As well as passing messages back
and forth, Erlang also has mechanisms for passing uncaught exceptions
in the top-levels of processes back to processes waiting for messages
from that process... or something like that. Something that prevents
deadlock situations where a client thread is waiting for a response
from a server thread that dies, without extra programmer effort, anyway.

Also, is the MPI process-management model the same as Erlang's?
That's another important facet.

>      -Ivan


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