[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] SRFI-39 should be made an R6RS library

From: John Cowan <cowan>
Date: Wed Feb 21 14:21:47 2007

R. Kent Dybvig scripsit:

> In implementation, yes. But my thread system is based on pthreads, and
> you'd have to have quite a few parameters to notice the difference in
> thread-creation or memory overhead. Applications don't typically use
> very many thread parameters in any case.

The same points apply to Chicken, which stashes parameters constructed by
make-parameter (the only kind that are per-thread) in a per-thread vector.

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