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Re: Eu Threading -- Cheap Threads

• Posted by "Kat" <gertie at visionsix.com> Sep 20, 2004
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On 20 Sep 2004, at 14:57, Robert Craig wrote:

> 
> 
> posted by: Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com>
> 
> 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.

<cough> Al Getz's "windows server" </cough>

Kat