multithreaded lisp?

From: Simon Josefsson
Subject: multithreaded lisp?
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 11:25:26 +0000
Message-ID: <m31ypokyjd.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Are there any working lisp implementations with multithread support
out there?  Any docs on how they work?  Excuse my ignorance.

Re: multithreaded lisp? ···············@solibri.com
Re: multithreaded lisp? Eugene Zaikonnikov
Re: multithreaded lisp? Jochen Schmidt

From: ···············@solibri.com
Subject: Re: multithreaded lisp?
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 12:02:21 +0000
Message-ID: <un18c9oaa.fsf@solibri.com>

Simon Josefsson <·····@josefsson.org> writes:

> Are there any working lisp implementations with multithread support
> out there?  Any docs on how they work?  Excuse my ignorance.

Offhand at least Franz, Xanalys and Symbolics come to mind; I don't
remember the status of the free ones.

See for example www.franz.com for on-line documentation of one
implementation. 

--

From: Eugene Zaikonnikov
Subject: Re: multithreaded lisp?
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 13:46:33 +0000
Message-ID: <6yg0e4jdfq.fsf@viking.cit>

* "Simon" == Simon Josefsson <·····@josefsson.org> writes:

Simon>  Are there any working lisp implementations with multithread
Simon>  support out there?  Any docs on how they work?

CMUCL on x86 platform supports threads, based on CLIM multiprocessing
facilities. The doc can be found at
http://www.xanalys.com/software_tools/reference/lwu41/climuser/GUID_335.HTM#HEADING335-0
CMUCL is in public domain (www.cons.org/cmucl).
The implementations of two major commercial vendors, Xanalys
(www.xanalys.com) and Franz (www.franz.com) can do threads on a
variety of platforms.

-- 
  Eugene

From: Jochen Schmidt
Subject: Re: multithreaded lisp?
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 15:03:35 +0000
Message-ID: <9e0oti$e4r8$1@ID-22205.news.dfncis.de>

Simon Josefsson wrote:

> Are there any working lisp implementations with multithread support
> out there?  Any docs on how they work?  Excuse my ignorance.

Most Lisp-Systems have multithread support. At least all commercial ones I 
know of:

- Xanalys' Lispworks
- Franz' AllegroCL
- Digitools MCL
- Symbolics CL
- CormanLisp

From the free ones CMUCL for x86 (under FreeBSD and Linux) supports
MT - CLISP and CMUCL for non-x86 doesn't support it.

Regards,
Jochen