OpenEuphoria

Re: The fate of Euphoria

• Posted by CoJaBo <cojabo at suscom.net> Nov 07, 2004
• 670 views

I posted this a while ago:

I think threads are needed in Euphoria. The example below would be 
fairly easy to use. Many programs would benifit from this.
procedure new_thread(integer routine_id,sequence params,int priority)
new_thread() starts the thread and returns imediatly.

routine_id is the routine id for the procedure to run

params is "params must be a sequence of argument values of length n, 
where n is the number of arguments required by the procedure. If the 
procedure does not take any arguments then params should be {}."(copied 
from manual: call_proc)

priority is somthing like HIGH, LOW, NORMAL, ABOVENORMAL, ect(this
would be nice, but I wouldn't really care if it wasn't implemented,
as long as there is a good reason for not implementing it.)


procedure a()
integer t
t=time()
for z=1 to 1000000 do
--do something that takes a lot of time here
end for
?time()-t  --a fairly high number
end procedure

procedure b(integer i)
integer t
t=time()
for z=1 to 1000000 do
--do something that takes a lot of time here
end for
?time()-t  --a fairly high number
end procedure

integer tt
tt=time()
new_thread(routine_id("a"),{},ABOVENORMAL)
new_thread(routine_id("b"),{rand(10)},LOW)
?time()-tt  --would display a number near 0 because new_thread() returns 
imediatly

richard koch wrote:
> 
> I think that one of real things that are missing are threads. i asked a couple
> of
> times for it, - but somehow it doesn't seem to be usefull for others.
> eu is nice for little,little,little proggies (lacking threads), but for the
> things
> 
> i need to do i have to use D or modula (sure there are other possibilities - i
>
> circumvent M$ and can port without change to linux).
> i can very well understand the problems people have and i hope there will be
> changes, since i like the concepts of this little language.
> 
> best regards
> 
> richard koch
>