The scheme of things

Curtis, Pavel

doi:10.1145/121994.121077

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“…According to a report on the discussion [1], inclusion of two special constructs are being considered: values and call-with-values. The procedure values is the same as in Common Lisp.…”

Section: Multiple Values In Common Lisp and Schemementioning

confidence: 99%

Futures and multiple values in parallel Lisp

Tanaka¹,

Shigeru²

1995

SIGPLAN Lisp Pointers

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We consider the impact of introducing the future construct to the multiple value facility in Lisp (Common Lisp and Scheme). A natural way to accommodate this problem is by modifying the implementation of futures so that one future object returns (or resolves to) multiple values instead of one. We first show how a such straightforward modification fails to maintain the crucial characteristic of futures, namely that inserting futures in a functional program does not alter the the result of the computation. A straightforward modification may result in wrong number of values. We then present two methods which we call the my-context method and the mv-p flag method to overcome this problem. Both of these methods have been tested in TOP-1 Common Lisp, an implementation of a parallel Common Lisp on the TOP-1 multiprocessor workstation. To our knowledge, this problem has never been analyzed nor solved in an implementation of paralle ! Lisp. We also present the technique of future chain elimination which avoids creation of unnecessary futures and processes at run-time, which was inspired by this solution.

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“…According to a report on the discussion [1], inclusion of two special constructs are being considered: values and call-with-values. The procedure values is the same as in Common Lisp.…”

Section: Multiple Values In Common Lisp and Schemementioning

confidence: 99%