OpenEuphoria

Re: Multitasking Preview #2

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> Oct 20, 2005
• 464 views

Robert Craig wrote:
> 
> I've submitted an update of the multitasking preview to
> Recent User Contributions. It contains 4 new routines:
> 
>   task_list() - returns a sequence of all active or suspended tasks
> 
>   task_status() - returns a value indicating if a task is active (1),
>                   suspended (0), or non-existent (-1)
> 
>   task_clock_stop() - stop the scheduler clock for real-time tasks
> 
>   task_clock_start() - restart the scheduler clock for real-time tasks
> 
> There's also a bug fix and a small improvement to Language War.
> 
> Soon I'll start implementing the multitasking API in the official
> (C backend) interpreter and the translator.
> 
> Regards,
>    Rob Craig
>    Rapid Deployment Software
>    <a href="http://www.RapidEuphoria.com">http://www.RapidEuphoria.com</a>
> 

Hi Rob,

Sounds great, i'll have to check it out asap.  With the new features
my programs wont have to keep track of things like which tasks are
still running...this will be very convenient.


Take care,
Al

And, good luck with your Euphoria programming!

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