From f0b4d944b4da08be29c9f647b2b61acf5ed9c922 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marius Vollmer Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 16:36:29 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added blurb about "null" threads. --- NEWS | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 5965d7383..b7fd69fcf 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -8,6 +8,20 @@ Changes since the stable branch: * Changes to the distribution +** There is a new thread implementation option: "null". + +When you configure "--with-threads=null", you will get the usual +threading API (call-with-new-thread, make-mutex, etc), but you can't +actually create new threads. + +The short term plan is to remove the support for --with-threads=no +completely so that one doesn't need to special case as much when +writing code that needs to be thread-aware but should also work +without threads. + +The long term plan is to make the selection of a thread implementation +a run-time option, not a configure time option. + ** Guile now includes its own version of libltdl. We now use a modified version of libltdl that allows us to make -- 2.20.1