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On Saturday, May 11, 2002, at 10:30  AM, Jonathan Bachrach wrote:

> i think the general thought is to
> not support native threads but to instead support threads built out of
> upward continuations (i.e., cooperative threads).

This is what I have done in SuperCollider, however the problem with it 
is that if you make a blocking system call in a primitive you've stalled 
all of the threads. There are solutions but every one I've thought of is 
an inelegant hack and too much work for something that should be simple.

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