I thought I'd replied earlier, but it doesn't seem to have made
it all the way to this list
On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 12:45, Michael Meehan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been thinking about adding Concurrency features to Unicon. Below
> are some ramblings on the subject.
Cool - *very* cool...
>
Threads looks cool. Somewhere I also read that forking processes in Linux
for example is as efficient as threads. Cannot say the same for Solaris
though.
Federico Balbi
Division of Computer Science
University of Texas at San Antonio
6900 N. Loop 1604 West
San Antonio, TX 78249-0667
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Concurrency in Icon has been studied; Kelvin Nilsen's Ph.D. dissertation
was on an experimental system (Conicon, concurrent Icon) which was never
released.
Concurrency in Unicon as Michael proposes might be an excellent addition.
Here are a few additional thoughts on his proposal.
1. making the
Hello,
I have been thinking about adding Concurrency features to Unicon. Below
are some ramblings on the subject.
Since Unicon assumes POSIX as its base, the obvious method for creating
concurrency in Unicon is to utilize the POSIX threads package (Pthreads)
within the i-code interpreter. In ord
