Scheduling - Guile Reference Manual

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5.17 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.
Continuation Barriers: Protection from non-local control flow.
Threads: Multiple threads of execution.
Mutexes and Condition Variables: Synchronization primitives.
Blocking: How to block properly in guile mode.
Critical Sections: Avoiding concurrency and reentries.
Fluids and Dynamic States: Thread-local variables, etc.
Parallel Forms: Parallel execution of forms.