OpenEuphoria

Re: Multitasking Preview Release

• Posted by codepilot Gmail Account <codepilot at gmail.com> Sep 23, 2005
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What part of you eucode is slow? Could you give me a general outline
of how the program works?
Daniel

On 9/23/05, Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de> wrote:
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> codepilot Gmail Account wrote:
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> > On 9/22/05, Juergen Luethje wrote:
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> >> I wrote a plugin (a Windows DLL) for Total Commander. Sometimes, when
> >> the DLL reads/writes huge files, obviously Total Commander is not able
> >> to update the optical appearance of its main window, until the DLL has
> >> finished its work.
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> >> Can I do something to solve the problem now, without the new
> >> multitasking system? Can the new multitasking system help to write
> >> "more cooperative" DLLs?
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> > Get the new TDLL, and use t_func/proc it splits calls into other
> > threads so blocking calls turn into non-blocking.
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> Thanks Daniel, TDLL is interesting.
> However, I don't see how it can help to solve the problem.
> In a reply to Vincent you wrote:
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> "the whole tdll.e library is a replacement for dll.e"
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> My Eu code does not use 'dll.e'. The code is translated and compiled
> to a DLL itself. Of course I have no influence on the way how
> Total Commander calls the code in my Eu DLL.
> Am I overlooking something?
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> Regards,
>   Juergen
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> Have you read a good program lately?
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