OpenEuphoria

Re: Threads [Was: Re: 64 bit euphoria]

• Posted by "Elliott S. de Andrade" <quantum_analyst at hotmail.com> Apr 29, 2005
• 510 views

>From: Hayden McKay <guest at RapidEuphoria.com>
>Reply-To: EUforum at topica.com
>To: EUforum at topica.com
>Subject: Re: Threads [Was: Re: 64 bit euphoria]
>Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 18:17:03 -0700
>
>
>posted by: Hayden McKay <hmck1 at dodo.com.au>
>
>In my opinion multi thread support built in to the interpretor pointless. 
>The
>best way to perform multi threading is to use Intel's Hyper-Threading 
>support
>or the Win32 Multi threading APIs. The link below shows how to create 
>threads
>useing the Win32 API's.  It is a very comprehensive reference to multi 
>thread
>techneques that can be applied on a cross platform basis. Also demonstrates
>how to avoid Hyper-Technology stack conflict's and has variouse code 
>snippets
>that can be applied to Euphoria.
>
>>http://cache-www.intel.com/cd/00/00/05/15/51534_developing_multithreaded_applications.pdf
>

    I also do not find it necessary to have a multi-threading *API* in the 
interpreter. However, it is necessary for there to be multi-threading 
support. The Win32 Multi-threading API and Intel's Hyper-Threading (which 
needs threads to do anything anyway) really don't make a difference if the 
interpreter is not thread-safe. You *cannot* use them without thread-safety. 
I have tried several API's; it does not work.


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