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New stuff about the thread support.

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Marius Vollmer 2002-10-21 12:20:01 +00:00
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@ -12,12 +12,13 @@ Changes since the stable branch:
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.
actually create new threads. Also, "--with-threads=no" is now
equivalent to "--with-threads=null". This means that the thread API
is always present, although you might not be able to 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.
When cooperative threading is not supported on your platform, you will
get the "null" threads.
The long term plan is to make the selection of a thread implementation
a run-time option, not a configure time option.