OpenEuphoria

Re: Is Euphoria a Hobby language?

• Posted by Alexander Toresson <toressonodakra at swipnet.se> Nov 24, 2004
• 699 views

cklester wrote:
> 
> Can you provide the name of a few programs that use threads? I doubt any
> program on my PC uses threads... from Quicken to UltraEdit to Firefox to...
> well, maybe Firefox.
> 
> I suspect that less than 5% of all computer programs on personal or
> business PCs use threads. Am I close? :)

If you are running windows, many of the system programs use threads.
For example explorer.exe. The windows version of eu actually uses threads.
It has two threads running, but I do not know the reason. Most games use
threads. Proper syncronization is dead impossible without threads.
Without threads, one cannot use the full power of multi-processor, 
p4 ht-processors and modern amd processors. If you've got a webserver
and you're running apache, it actually uses 200 threads by default.

Or, should I say, threads are very common in bigger projects.

> > Or can load plugins dynamically, and call functions within those plugins.
> 
> That would seem to be a complicated thing to pull off... or no?
> What language can do that? Isn't it just a matter of somebody coming up
> with a way to do that?

VERY useful in bigger projects. Yes, workarounds can be done, but they
aren't as good as it could be.

> > Or break out of multiple levels of loop without slowdown.
> 
> ?

/Lex


Shhh! Be vewy quiet! I'm hunting wuntime ewwows!