RE: RE: UDF question

2002-03-19 Thread Dave Watts
The only concurrency issues that seem to come up in CF are when we needto single thread any piece of code - that's what the locks do. But I haven't seen any code at all that allows us to start new threads in the same page. Everytime a new user goes onto your web site, a new thread is

Re: RE: UDF question - locking...the future...maybe...

2002-03-18 Thread ksuh
Yes. There are esoteric ways in Java to pass by copy as well, however, so knowledge of pointers is still an issue (but far less an issue than in some other languages). - Original Message - From: Raymond Camden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, March 18, 2002 1:51 pm Subject: RE: UDF

Re: RE: UDF question

2002-03-18 Thread ksuh
It comes down to a game: Can the server decide the best way to lock in less time than the best manually coded lock? Which then boils down to: Can the CF interpreter decide the best way to lock in less time than the time it would take a programmer to code the best manually coded lock? Which

RE: RE: UDF question

2002-03-18 Thread Matthew R. Small
PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 4:19 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: RE: UDF question It comes down to a game: Can the server decide the best way to lock in less time than the best manually coded lock? Which then boils down to: Can the CF interpreter decide the best way to lock in less time

Re: RE: UDF question

2002-03-18 Thread ksuh
See below: - Original Message - From: Matthew R. Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, March 18, 2002 2:33 pm Subject: RE: UDF question The only concurrency issues that seem to come up in CF are when we needto single thread any piece of code - that's what the locks do. But I

Re: RE: RE: UDF question

2002-03-18 Thread ksuh
is born out by: Assembly is faster than everything. - Original Message - From: Matthew R. Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, March 18, 2002 2:39 pm Subject: RE: RE: UDF question You're right... it seems that the real question is whether or not the server can determine whether

RE: RE: UDF question

2002-03-18 Thread Matthew R. Small
maybe? :-) My humble opinion. Matt Small -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 4:38 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: RE: UDF question See below: - Original Message - From: Matthew R. Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday

RE: RE: UDF question

2002-03-18 Thread Shawn Grover
, 2002 3:01 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: RE: UDF question I don't think it's a multi-threaded language because it is not possible (to my knowledge) to start a new thread and have it run while the main thread continues execution, then notify the main thread when it's done executing. The fact

RE: RE: UDF question

2002-03-18 Thread Matthew R. Small
But that's not CFML, that's HTML. And you can't thread a separate process to run concurrently inside the page. -Original Message- From: Shawn Grover [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 5:12 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: RE: UDF question You can begin mulitple

RE: RE: UDF question

2002-03-18 Thread Dave Watts
I don't think it's a multi-threaded language because it is not possible (to my knowledge) to start a new thread and have it run while the main thread continues execution, then notify the main thread when it's done executing. The fact that we need to be concerned about multi-threading