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by justinethier 3610 days ago
Cyclone author here. R7RS libraries and SRFI's will help to some extent, for example hashtable support was more or less plug and play. As Cyclone matures it could potentially support R7RS-large which is going to include quite a bit. But we'll have to see how much of that can handle "real" things like database, graphics, etc.

It would require major changes to the CHICKEN runtime to support native threads, but Cyclone does map out a potential solution.
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qwertyuiop924 3610 days ago
>R7RS libraries and SRFI's will help to some extent, for example hashtable support was more or less plug and play. As Cyclone matures it could potentially support R7RS-large which is going to include quite a bit. But we'll have to see how much of that can handle "real" things like database, graphics, etc.

Good news!

>It would require major changes to the CHICKEN runtime to support native threads, but Cyclone does map out a potential solution

Oh well. Well, at least there is hope.

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paines 3610 days ago
There is 1000$ bounty for enhacing CHICKEN with native threads. Maybe your work will trigger now someone :) .
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