OpenEuphoria

Re: marry christmas

• Posted by Vincent <darkvincentdude at yahoo.com> Dec 26, 2005
• 550 views

richard koch wrote:
> 
> hi,
> marry christmas to you all!
> i am excited watching the thtread about MT - get me an all new perspective.
> not having followed the whole scenario, is it like threads? get a connetion
> 
> and spawn a process that will be encapsulated and run unempeded, no
> destraction
> 
> from extern - and will compelet witout interuption?
> 
> loop
>   conditon
>      spawn - process/thread
>   end conditon -- never mind the thread
> end loop
> 
> never the less  - marry christmas and a happy new year
>   craig -- right way
> 
> 
> richard

The system RDS is implementing into Euphoria is called cooperative
multi-tasking. This method is different from pre-emptive multitasking in that a
scheduled task manager determinds when its appropriate for it to interrupt a
currently executing task then give control to another *OR* continue with the
current task. The task manager must first have permission to make this
determination with calls to task_yield().

My personal assessment of such a system concludes big disadvantages with the
latest computer technology and will become an inferior and obsolete standard in
the near future, if not currently. Fortuantly there may be an alternative
solution for Euphoria and any other language that does not support threads,
however it is not without it's own different problems. Nevertheless i'll likely
favor the latter without hesitation after some further experimentation.

Merry Christmas. 


Regards,
Vincent