Subject: Re: timer in lisp
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 04:51:56 -0600
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <QcmdnThflfHRn5_fRVn-iw@speakeasy.net>
Fred Gilham  <gilham@snapdragon.csl.sri.com> wrote:
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| But in the X86 implementations of CMUCL (which have multiprocessing)
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Well, they *call* is "multiprocessing", but it's actually just
multiprogramming, a.k.a. "green threads", all inside a single
Unix process. [Still, quite useful, since it's semi-transparently
integrated with non-blocking I/O...]


-Rob

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