On Jul 17, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Brian Adkins wrote: > On Jul 17, 2014, at 1:26 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote: >> We wanted to avoid multiple processes because OSes don't provide great >> facilities for managing them and communicating between them. > > Maybe I'm confused. I thought creating a new Place involved creating a new > process with the Racket VM, to run in parallel (potentially on a different > core) with the original process. Is the "new Racket instance" running in the > same process as the original? That's how I read the following: > > "The place form creates a place, which is effectively a new Racket instance > that can run in parallel to other places, including the initial place. " > > Maybe wording like "which is effectively" leaves too much to the imagination. > Do Places run in OS scheduled threads?
Ha. I'm watching the video Asumu posted, and right after posting the above to the list, within a couple seconds, you explain in the video that Places are in the same OS process :) It might be worth making that clear in the documentation. I expect many people who are interested to read about parallelism in Racket may also be interested in some of the implementation details as they pertain to efficiency. ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
