Re: [ann] fibers 1.0.0 released

[Matt Wette]

> On Feb 20, 2017, at 12:19 PM, Andy Wingo <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I'm delighted to announce the release of Fibers 1.0.0.
> 
> Fibers is a lightweight concurrency facility for Guile that supports
> non-blocking input and output, millions of concurrent threads, and
> Concurrent ML-inspired communication primitives.  For more information,
> see the web version of the manual at:
> 
>  https://github.com/wingo/fibers/wiki/Manual
> 
> The manual is also available in PDF and Info formats in the tarball.
> 
> The 1.0.0 tarball can be found here:
> 
>  https://wingolog.org/pub/fibers/fibers-1.0.0.tar.gz
> 
> Its SHA256 sum is:
> 
>  a051913e252f872c969d71939310cee10844157a317db93ebcaf3df8c479536e  
> fibers-1.0.0.tar.gz
> 
> Fibers 1.0.0 requires the newly released Guile 2.1.7.
> 
> This release finally improves the exception handling situation, so that
> that fibers that have uncaught exceptions print nice errors instead of
> killing the system.  It also fixes a bug in channels, adds a condition
> variable implementation, adds a standalone web server implementation
> that scales with the number of cores available to it, implements many
> performance improvements, lowers the overhead of preemption, and
> improves documentation.
> 
> Happy hacking,
> 
> Andy
> 
> 

This is not going to compile on macOS or FreeBSD, but these OSes do support 
kqueue.  
How to proceed?  I think making equeue look like epoll may be a bit kludgy.

And the cpuclockid calls need to be dealt with:
* clock_getcpuclockid
* pthread_getcpuclockid
* clock_nanosleep

Matt