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| author | Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> | 2016-10-17 22:03:30 +0200 |
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| committer | Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> | 2016-10-17 22:03:30 +0200 |
| commit | 728068113df3294624498531cd0cc1c8714c8eff (patch) | |
| tree | 0983ad7749ca63cf7bd3bc7784aaf49761ce3b2d /NEWS | |
| parent | 59f09d185b143326fb5c4d47bbd66eebe2b28d87 (diff) | |
NEWS item for deprecated user asyncs
* NEWS: Add news.
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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 9 |
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@@ -19,6 +19,15 @@ Arbiters were an experimental mutual exclusion facility from 20 years ago that didn't survive the test of time. Use mutexes or atomic boxes instead. +** User asyncs deprecated + +Guile had (and still has) "system asyncs", which are asynchronous +interrupts, and also had this thing called "user asyncs", which was a +trivial unused data structure. Now that we have deprecated the old +`async', `async-mark', and `run-asyncs' procedures that comprised the +"user async" facility, we have been able to clarify our documentation to +only refer to "asyncs". + * Bug fixes |