[Gambas-user] Multithreaded Programs

[Jussi Lahtinen]

Hmmm... interesting. Thanks for the link!

Jussi


2009/11/5 Benoît Minisini <gambas at ...1...>:
>> I pretty much agree.
>> Gambas as well as other RAD languages are very good for GUI
>> programming, and generally for not CPU intensive purposes.
>> If you really need speed, use libraries written with C/C++ or similar.
>> BUT it would be very nice if Gambas could handle most things so
>> quickly that you don't need to use C/C++.
>>
>> Maybe Gambas could launch multiple interpreters to enable
>>  multi-threading..? But I think you have already considered and discarded
>>  that idea...
>>
>> Maybe interpreter itself should use multi-threading?
>> Although I don't know is there yet any good way to do that, meaning
>> without installing TBB or similar to enable
>> easy using like parallel_for, parallel_loop etc.
>>
>> Jussi
>>
>
> I don't like doing that, but hey, here is an authoritative argument. :-)
>
> "A computer is a state machine. Threads are for people who can't program state
> machines." - Alan Cox.
>
> If you want a detailed discussion about that, read the Linux Kernel Mailing-
> List.
>
> http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0106.2/index.html#400
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Benoît Minisini
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