Hacking in abeyance today, in favour of starting to clean house,#

Sun, 18 Nov 2001 01:06:14 +0000

Hacking in abeyance today, in favour of starting to clean house, and visitors. Visit bottle bank, walk through the university parks and over to Marston, then back for coffee. Then we went out for dinner to celebrate the first anniversary of my vanity company. Tomorrow more cleaning (received notice that landlord is coming round to inspect the place sometime during the week when I'm out, causing me to look at the skirting boards and think "hmm, when did I last dust that?") and hopefully some writing of invoices. The company first traded on Dec 31 last year, but I'm hoping that I can actually close the accounts at the end of November to coincide with the VAT return.

Now let's see if we can finish a roadmap for the next stage of SBCL threads before bedtime. The thread switching primitives work fine (and have for months, in fact) so we just(tm) have to worry about writing a scheduler, queueing, locking, timer events, and doing enough integration into the stream io system that the thing will still actually run. Preferably without rendering the whole thing completely unusable for people who elect not to use threads, too.