I don't think I understood your reply or maybe there was no reply. If there was a reply then I'd love to hear your ideas on how to take care of this issue. Without threading.
Sent from TypeApp On May 31, 2018, 13:37, at 13:37, "Benoît Minisini" <g4m...@gmail.com> wrote: >Le 31/05/2018 à 23:27, MacGyver via Gambas-user a écrit : >> I will give you a real life example of the need for multithreading. >> >> project to monitor status of computers on a network. this is done >with a >> ping to each system from a timer. the result is either online or >offline >> depending on ping results. The program is unresponsive to the user >while >> multiple pings are done in the background. multithreading would allow >the >> program to be responsive to users while other computer status is >checked in >> another thread. furthermore if for some reason a person had 100 >systems to >> monitor on the network, this will take time if many are in offline >status >> leaving the program unresponsive to users for quite some time. >creating 100 >> threads each pinging only one system then terminating after returning >the >> result would make it even faster as all pings are done >simultaneously. >> >> So there is but one real world application for multithreading. not to >> mention it would make gambas immensely more powerful. >> > >"A Computer is a state machine. Threads are for people who can't >program >state machines." - Alan Cox. > >:-) > >-- >Benoît Minisini > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >_______________________________________________ >Gambas-user mailing list >Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
