SBCL

Should thread support depend on platform?

Asked by Brett van de Sande

Thread support is, by default, turned off on all platforms. The documentation (http://www.sbcl.org/manual/Threading.html) seems (to me) to indicate that it should be turned on for x86 or x86-64 architecture, or SunOS (Solaris) on the x86. And it should be turned off, by default, on other platforms.

1. Either the instructions need to be clarified, or the build needs to be modified to include thread support on platforms where it works.

2. Binary distribution sbcl-1.0.28-x86-linux, and earlier include thread support. This means that, for those releases, the default source build does not match the binary distribution, as claimed by the last sentence in Section 2.1 of the INSTALL file.

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Nikodemus Siivola (nikodemus) said : 		#1

In current SBCL thread support is built by default on Linux x86 and x86-64.

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