[Gambas-user] Multithreaded Programs

[Doriano Blengino]

Benoît Minisini ha scritto:
>> 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.
>   
"A computer is made of flip-flops (the very basic unit of memory). High 
level languages are for people who don't understand computers - those 
who understand them are perfectly happy with punched paper tapes and 
machine-level languages" - Doriano Blengino.

Without multi-threading and multi-tasking there would not be computers 
as we know them. Full stop. This is not to say that gambas should have 
multi-threading, nor that Alan Cox is stupid. But that affirmation is. 
More on this, if requested.

Regards,

-- 
Doriano Blengino

"Listen twice before you speak.
This is why we have two ears, but only one mouth."