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Re: Eu Threading -- Cheap Threads

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Sep 20, 2004
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Ron Weidner wrote:
> I've seen several posts about threads here.  So far, it seems 
> threads are not implemented.  So, I found this LGPL C lib called
> "Cheap Threads" that might be helpful for someone willing to 
> implement it for Eu.  Not sure it will help but, here is the
> URL anyway...
> 
> <a href="http://home.swbell.net/mck9/ct/">http://home.swbell.net/mck9/ct/</a>

What he's talking about here is not threads in the usual sense,
but rather "cooperative multitasking". It's the same idea that
the "Language War" demo program uses. In fact, he gives an example
of a star wars type game. If I were paranoid, I'd suspect that he
got the idea from Language War. See euphoria\demo\langwar
and look at the comments in sched.e

True "pre-emptive" threads might be added to Euphoria some day,
but it would be a big project, as I've discussed before.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com