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Re:Owl Lisp – A purely functional Scheme that compiles to C by hga on Saturday September 10, 2016 @03:21PM (#12470524)
And as I read it sometime ago while searching for Scheme implementations with native threads, Cheney on the MTA is inherently single threaded.
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Re:Owl Lisp – A purely functional Scheme that compiles to C by justinethier on Saturday September 10, 2016 @03:54PM (#12470636)
Not necessarily, it can be extended to support multithreading:

https://github.com/justinethier/cyclone

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Re:Owl Lisp – A purely functional Scheme that compiles to C by dleslie on Saturday September 10, 2016 @05:18PM (#12470924)
Cyclone is a new Scheme with native threads that uses cheney.
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