Re: Simulate multi-threading and shared memory
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Nov 22, 2011
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Looking for feedback on the practicality of simulating multiple threads. Love to hear if someone else has or is doing something similar - or am I off my rocker..
The idea is to have a euphoria exe running as a windows service. It will then start x number of smaller euphoria exe applications (via command line) and pass data to/from those app's via shared memory.
I have prototyped this and it seems to work - but am I missing something? Is this reliable, stable and fast enough?
Thanks for feedback.
I have done something similar before on GNU/Linux: http://openeuphoria.org/forum/m/82398.wc
That was a lot easier because of Unix schemantics regarding fork().
But, iiuc you want to run an Euphoria app as a service? And you want to use multiple processes to emulate the multithreading that's required to natively run as a service? (As opposed to wrapping the app in something like winserv http://www.sw4me.com/wiki/Winserv )
