2006-02-01 Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@laas.fr>

[bpt/guile.git] / libguile / futures.h

diff --git a/libguile/futures.h b/libguile/futures.h
index 2654be1..6b8ee23 100644 (file)
--- a/libguile/futures.h
+++ b/libguile/futures.h
@@ -17,11 +17,23 @@
  *
  * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
  * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
  */
 
 \f
 
+#if 0
+
+/* Futures have the following known bugs, which should be fixed before
+   including them in Guile:
+
+   - The implementation of the thread cache needs to be better so that
+     it behaves reasonable under heavy use.
+
+   - The dynamic state of a thread needs to be properly initialized
+     when it is retrieved from the cache.
+*/
+
 #include "libguile/__scm.h"
 #include "libguile/threads.h"
 
@@ -29,8 +41,8 @@
 
 typedef struct scm_t_future {
   SCM data;
-  scm_t_mutex mutex;
-  scm_t_cond cond;
+  scm_i_pthread_mutex_t mutex;
+  scm_i_pthread_cond_t cond;
   int status;
   int die_p;
 } scm_t_future;
@@ -67,6 +79,8 @@ SCM_API SCM scm_future_ref (SCM future);
 
 void scm_init_futures (void);
 
+#endif  /* Futures are disabled for now. */
+
 #endif  /* SCM_FUTURES_H */
 
 /*