Re: [Factor-talk] Multithreading

2014-06-19 Thread Jon Harper
Hi Andrea, On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Andrea Ferretti wrote: > > Am I right in understanding that futures actually do run in a > different OS thread that shares nothing with the creating thread? No, futures also use coroutines in the same OS thread. You need multiple factor processes to

[Factor-talk] Multithreading

2014-06-19 Thread Andrea Ferretti
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 h