[Openmcl-devel] native threads
R. Matthew Emerson
rme at acm.org
Fri Jan 5 10:48:19 PST 2024
> On Jan 5, 2024, at 8:58 AM, Tim McNerney <mc at media.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> Your "thread pools" approach sounds wise. While I don't (but should) know what CCL does right now w.r.t. threads, the "modern thing to do" is for Lisps to use native OS threads, which I can easily imagine take some time to launch, but then take good advantage of symmetric multiprocessing (SMP). That's what Franz does anyway. I assume, based on the compiler output I've studied, that CCL supports SMP threads. I would not expect that CCL runs its own scheduler anymore. [Wizards: please correct me if I'm wrong].
CCL uses native OS threads.
MCL had user-level threads, and in ye olden days, so did OpenMCL (as Clozure CL was formerly called). But native threads have been part of the implementation since at least 2003.
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