From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Can you multi-thread in LISP Date: 1998/04/06 Message-ID: <3100880435015769@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 341456560 References: <3527F3C4.52F6@erols.com> <35281008.679C50D5@netcom.ca> <6gahau$le8$1@news2.alpha.net> <3100870047907599@naggum.no> <6gb5hi$l9e$1@mycroft.westnet.com> mail-copies-to: never Organization: Naggum Software; +47 8800 8879; http://www.naggum.no Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * Lawrence Troxler | PMFJI, but I was under the impression that Allegro's multiple "threads" of | Lisp execution take place under co-operative multitasking, under a single | CPU thread. Maybe I'm mistaken? no. why do you quote _thread_ just because Allegro doesn't use one particular implementation of a well-known technology with lots of very different implementations? OS-level "threads" are mainly useful to C programmers, who can get nothing else. they aren't all that useful to programmers in higher-level languages, who can get the exact same services by other means. oh, apart from the hype-factor, of course. #:Erik -- religious cult update in light of new scientific discoveries: "when we cannot go to the comet, the comet must come to us."