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This is an implementation of the SRFI-18 threading and synchronization library. The functions and variables described here are provided by
(use-modules (srfi srfi-18))
SRFI-18 defines facilities for threads, mutexes, condition variables, time, and exception handling. Because these facilities are at a higher level than Guile’s primitives, they are implemented as a layer on top of what Guile provides. In particular this means that a Guile mutex is not a SRFI-18 mutex, and a Guile thread is not a SRFI-18 thread, and so on. Guile provides a set of primitives and SRFI-18 is one of the systems built in terms of those primitives.
| • SRFI-18 Threads | Executing code | |
| • SRFI-18 Mutexes | Mutual exclusion devices | |
| • SRFI-18 Condition variables | Synchronizing of groups of threads | |
| • SRFI-18 Time | Representation of times and durations | |
| • SRFI-18 Exceptions | Signalling and handling errors |