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32 Threads, Mutexes, Asyncs and Dynamic Roots

[FIXME: This is pasted in from Tom Lord's original guile.texi chapter plus the Cygnus programmer's manual; it should be *very* carefully reviewed and largely reorganized.]

• Arbiters: Synchronization primitives.
• Asyncs: Asynchronous procedure invocation.
• Dynamic Roots: Root frames of execution.
• Threads: Multiple threads of execution.
• Fluids: Dynamically scoped variables.