On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Felix <fe...@call-with-current-continuation.org> wrote: > Does it freeze while the long-running operation is in progress, > or does it freeze indefinitely?
The app is only unresponsive while the long-running operation is being executed. >> So my question is: it's just me not properly using Chicken's >> "cooperative" threads (which might be well the case since I am not >> accustomed to those), or I've hit an intrinsic limit of Chicken being >> single threaded (in the pthread sense of "concurrent" threads)? > > The threads CHICKEN uses are not compatible with native threads. > The CHICKEN-runtime is definitely single threaded. For UNIXish > systems + pthreads there is an egg that does what Christian > describes, but including full thread-synchronization: > > http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/concurrent-native-callbacks I'll take a close look at that. Thanks. Michele _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
