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Added blurb about "null" threads.

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Marius Vollmer 2002-10-16 16:36:29 +00:00
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@ -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