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revision 1.356 by mvo, Wed Oct 9 22:49:00 2002 UTC revision 1.357 by mvo, Wed Oct 16 16:36:29 2002 UTC
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9  * Changes to the distribution  * Changes to the distribution
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11    ** There is a new thread implementation option: "null".
12    
13    When you configure "--with-threads=null", you will get the usual
14    threading API (call-with-new-thread, make-mutex, etc), but you can't
15    actually create new threads.
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17    The short term plan is to remove the support for --with-threads=no
18    completely so that one doesn't need to special case as much when
19    writing code that needs to be thread-aware but should also work
20    without threads.
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22    The long term plan is to make the selection of a thread implementation
23    a run-time option, not a configure time option.
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25  ** Guile now includes its own version of libltdl.  ** Guile now includes its own version of libltdl.
26    
27  We now use a modified version of libltdl that allows us to make  We now use a modified version of libltdl that allows us to make

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