coop - a concurrent ml-like wanna be (pre-SRFI) Amirouche (05 May 2021 18:30 UTC)
Re: coop - a concurrent ml-like wanna be (pre-SRFI) Amirouche (06 May 2021 10:28 UTC)
Re: coop - a concurrent ml-like wanna be (pre-SRFI) Marc Feeley (06 May 2021 14:27 UTC)
Re: coop - a concurrent ml-like wanna be (pre-SRFI) Amirouche (06 May 2021 14:50 UTC)
Re: coop - a concurrent ml-like wanna be (pre-SRFI) Alexey Abramov (06 May 2021 15:32 UTC)
Re: coop - a concurrent ml-like wanna be (pre-SRFI) Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (06 May 2021 15:41 UTC)
Re: coop - a concurrent ml-like wanna be (pre-SRFI) Amirouche (06 May 2021 16:28 UTC)
Re: coop - a concurrent ml-like wanna be (pre-SRFI) Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (06 May 2021 16:37 UTC)
Re: coop - a concurrent ml-like wanna be (pre-SRFI) Amirouche (06 May 2021 16:48 UTC)
Re: coop - a concurrent ml-like wanna be (pre-SRFI) Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (06 May 2021 17:22 UTC)
Re: coop - a concurrent ml-like wanna be (pre-SRFI) Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (06 May 2021 19:13 UTC)
Re: coop - a concurrent ml-like wanna be (pre-SRFI) Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (06 May 2021 19:37 UTC)
Re: coop - a concurrent ml-like wanna be (pre-SRFI) Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (06 May 2021 21:54 UTC)
Re: coop - a concurrent ml-like wanna be (pre-SRFI) Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (07 May 2021 07:01 UTC)
Re: coop - a concurrent ml-like wanna be (pre-SRFI) Alex Shinn (07 May 2021 07:42 UTC)
Re: coop - a concurrent ml-like wanna be (pre-SRFI) Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (07 May 2021 08:35 UTC)
Re: coop - a concurrent ml-like wanna be (pre-SRFI) Alex Shinn (07 May 2021 08:41 UTC)
Re: coop - a concurrent ml-like wanna be (pre-SRFI) Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (07 May 2021 08:58 UTC)
Re: coop - a concurrent ml-like wanna be (pre-SRFI) Alex Shinn (07 May 2021 13:47 UTC)
Re: coop - a concurrent ml-like wanna be (pre-SRFI) Amirouche (06 May 2021 19:36 UTC)
Re: coop - a concurrent ml-like wanna be (pre-SRFI) Lassi Kortela (06 May 2021 19:40 UTC)
Re: coop - a concurrent ml-like wanna be (pre-SRFI) Amirouche Boubekki (06 May 2021 21:25 UTC)
Re: coop - a concurrent ml-like wanna be (pre-SRFI) Marc Feeley (06 May 2021 17:07 UTC)
Re: coop - a concurrent ml-like wanna be (pre-SRFI) Amirouche (06 May 2021 21:01 UTC)
Re: coop - a concurrent ml-like wanna be (pre-SRFI) John Cowan (06 May 2021 21:25 UTC)

Re: coop - a concurrent ml-like wanna be (pre-SRFI) Alexey Abramov 06 May 2021 15:32 UTC

Hi,

I am new here, but i think https://github.com/wingo/fibers
can be helpful.

--
Alexey

May 6, 2021 16:50:15 Amirouche <xxxxxx@hyper.dev>:

> Thanks for ending this monolog. And thanks for SRFI-18,
> it is very helpful, and I will use it to implement coop
> pre-SRFI.
>
> ref: https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-18/srfi-18.html
>
> On 2021-05-06 16:26, Marc Feeley - feeley at iro.umontreal.ca wrote:
>> I’m not sure what your goal is with this SRFI.  Could you clarify?
>> SRFI-18 (Multithreading support) is supported by many Scheme
>> implementations and is the best thread API if you are interested in
>> portability accross Scheme implementations.  It seems some of the
>> things you are proposing have a direct link with SRFI-18 features, so
>> I don’t understand why a new SRFI is needed.
>
> So far, if we disregard PRIORITY, coop is only an alternative to
> SRFI-18.
>
> When priority is +inf.0 it should have exclusive access to a CPU.
> Otherwise it is a hint to implement fairness.
>
> Coop API surface is much smaller.
>
> If we disregard "existing mainstream knowledge" as is the case of a
> programmer without prior experience programming concurrent system:
> it is simpler.
>
> What I am exploring with that pre-SRFI is whether coop provides less
> guns to shoot myself in the foot compared to mutex and conditions.
>
> So far, the only problem with coop is producer or consumer starvation.