Hi all, I am new to Factor and I am just starting to dablle with it. I have to say that I am impressed that such a small community created a programming language this mature and all the libraries that surround it.
I am trying to figure out the current situtation about multithreading. On the one hand, I see that there is a vocabulary for cooperative multithreading, and I remember having read in the docs and in this mailing list that many words are not thread-safe and hence os theads or greenlets (M:N scheduling) are not supported. On the other hand on http://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-concurrency.futures.html I read "futures, which are deferred computations performed in a background thread" and in fact under the documentation for the future word "The quotation begins with an empty data stack, an empty catch stack, and a name stack containing the global namespace only". Am I right in understanding that futures actually do run in a different OS thread that shares nothing with the creating thread? Is there a way to communicate between futures, maybe by passsing some sort of channel into the quotation that starts it, so that one can take advantage of multiple cores in a single factor program? Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
