LispWorks supports Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD and x86/x64 Solaris platforms. Where functionality differs from other platforms, the documentation refers to "SMP LispWorks" or "Non-SMP LispWorks", as appropriate.
This section describes changes made in the multiprocessing interface since version 6.1.
New APIs allow you to ensure hash table entries in a thread-safe way. This means attempting to get a value, and if that fails setting and returning a new value (potentially having constructed the new value in a complicated way). See "Modifying a hash table with multiprocessing" in the LispWorks User Guide and Reference Manual .
The functions mp:current-process-send and mp:mailbox-wait are new. Also the documentation of interrupts and communication between processes has been improved. See sections "Processes basics" and "Communication between processes and synchronization" in the
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LispWorks Release Notes and Installation Guide - 2 Mar 2015