[Openmcl-devel] binding with threads

[Vijay Mathew]

Just an update on the issue - I tested the code with ECL and it works fine.

--Vijay


On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:21 PM, David L. Rager <ragerdl at gmail.com> wrote:

> FYI, here's my multi-threading interface, which works well on CCL and
> should work on SBCL and LispWorks (but I test these lisps less often).
>
>
> http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/moore/acl2/current/distrib/acl2-sources/multi-threading-raw.lisp
>
> And here's my futures implementation.  I originally omitted it because
> it has some features you won't need (catching and rethrowing a given
> set of tags), and it's missing something that Sedach's does provide
> (error catching and rethrowing... iirc):
>
>
> http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/moore/acl2/current/distrib/acl2-sources/futures-raw.lisp
>
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Vijay Mathew
> <vijay.the.lisper at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi David,
> >
> > Thanks for your reply.
> > I wrote the futures library just as an exercise for learning Common Lisp.
> > You can download it here: http://ubuntuone.com/4XEnbbdvhccGOqC6WqGJ3S.
> BTW,
> > I am still debugging it!
> >
> > I am on CCL 1.10 dev trunk.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --Vijay
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 7:57 PM, David L. Rager <ragerdl at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Vijay,
> >>
> >> Welcome to the world of CCL threads!
> >>
> >> I don't yet know the answer to your first question.  However, maybe
> >> you can figure it out with this debugging hint:  I have my own
> >> multi-threading package, so this will look like pseudo-code.  The most
> >> common thing I do is interrupt a thread and view its backtrace, which
> >> should help you in this instance.
> >>
> >> (all-threads)  ; or :proc, or (ccl:all-processes) iirc
> >> (interrupt-thread (nth <n> (all-threads)) #'break)
> >> :y <thread-number-to-yield-to>
> >> :b ; for backtrace
> >> <other common debugging features>
> >>
> >> Is your futures library available?  There are various Lisp libraries
> >> that provide parallel execution.  For example, Vladamir Sedach
> >> provides an eager futures library [
> >> http://common-lisp.net/project/eager-future/ ].  Also, I provide a
> >> "plet" primitive (and others, like "spec-mv-let") for ACL2, which is
> >> built on top of CL [
> >> http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/moore/acl2/current/PLET.html ].  If
> >> you'd like more information about the latter, feel free to inquire
> >> (probably off the list-serve).
> >>
> >> David
> >>
> >> PS -- setf can be different than just using let.  Maybe using or not
> >> using special variables is part of the issue?
> >> PPS -- are you on CCL 1.9 or later?  There was a bug for a little bit
> >> right before the 1.9 release, but I'd be surprised if you were hitting
> >> it in this simple test case.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Vijay Mathew
> >> <vijay.the.lisper at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Consider this code snippet which demonstrates a "futures" package for
> >> > executing computations asynchronously:
> >> >
> >> > (setf e (futures:make-pool-executor 2))
> >> > (setf f1 (futures:executor-submit e #'(lambda (x) (* x 2)) 100))
> >> > (setf f2 (futures:executor-submit e #'(lambda (x y) (+ x y)) 200 300))
> >> > (format t "~A~%" (futures:future-result f1))
> >> > (format t "~A~%" (futures:future-result f2))
> >> > (futures:executor-shutdown e nil)
> >> >
> >> > `pool-executor' internally uses a pool of ccl threads for executing
> the
> >> > jobs
> >> > submitted to it. Now if I rewrite the same sample using `let'
> bindings,
> >> > the
> >> > call to `future-result' just hangs. The threads actually run, but it
> >> > seems
> >> > `future-result' somehow do not see the updated value of the internal
> >> > `result' slot.
> >> >
> >> > If I load this script, it just hangs the CCL REPL:
> >> >
> >> > (let ((e (futures:make-pool-executor 2)))
> >> >   (let ((f1 (futures:executor-submit e #'(lambda (x) (* x 2)) 100))
> >> >         (f2 (futures:executor-submit e #'(lambda (x y) (+ x y)) 200
> >> > 300)))
> >> >     (format t "~A~%" (futures:future-result f1))
> >> >     (format t "~A~%" (futures:future-result f2))
> >> >     (futures:executor-shutdown e nil)))
> >> >
> >> > Also I would like to learn about the best way to debug programs that
> use
> >> > CCL
> >> > threads.
> >> >
> >> > I am new to Common Lisp and the kind of support I am getting from this
> >> > mailing list is very encouraging!
> >> >
> >> > Thank you,
> >> >
> >> > --Vijay
> >> >
> >> >
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