[comp.lang.scheme] Futures

phill@eng.AUburn.EDU (01/22/91)

feeley@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Marc Feeley) writes:

>The new version of the Gambit Scheme system is now available.  A
>couple of minor bugs have been fixed from version 1.4.  The support
>for parallelism has been greatly improved.  The compiler now generates
>very efficient code for futures....


What are 'futures' ?  

Where can I find more information about them ?

-- Patrick Hill                       phill@eng.auburn.edu