Doriano Blengino wrote: > 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, > > Surely Alan Cox had meant that to be understood with a nudge and a wink. :-) Multi - threading opens a whole can of worms. Gambas 2 is rock solid and if there has to be a choice between robustness and performance I take the former any time.
Having said that, I do have difficulties getting a ticker message to run across the bottom of a 42 inch plasma screen without noticeable jitter while the rest of the screen is doing Image.Fade (on a dual core CPU). Maybe the answer to my woes is to take a long hard look at openGL. Regards, Werner ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
