Re: GNU Guile branch, master, updated. v2.1.0-163-g283ab48

[Mark H Weaver]

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:

>> I fear that making 'default-prompt-tag' a parameter might slow things
>> down quite a bit on platforms with a slow implementation of thread local
>> storage.
>
> Not the case!  It shouldn't depend on thread-local storage at all
> actually since the VM already has a handle on the current thread and
> dynamic state.

Ah yes, indeed that is true.

>> What's the anticipated use case for this?
>
> Parameterizing default prompts?  It allows users to re-set the
> user/system process boundary for a dynamic extent.

Okay, makes sense.  Sorry for the bother.

   Thanks!
     Mark