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.( Loading Multi-tasking Sieve benchmark...) cr
\ A fancy way of calculating prime numbers using dynamic creation of tasks.
\ Adapted from Barnes, Programming in Ada, 3rd ed., Addison-Wesley, 1989
\ ch. 14 Tasking, sec. 9 Examples of Task Types, pp. 324-327.
#include structures.f83
#include multi-tasking.f83
structures multi-tasking forth definitions
ONE-TO-ONE CHAN parameter ( Parameter passing channel)
16 16 task.type FILTER ( -- )
ptr previous ( Channel to previous task)
long prime ( The local prime number)
ptr next ( Channel to next task)
task.body
parameter receive previous ! ( Receive previous task channel)
parameter receive dup . prime ! ( And local prime number parameters)
nil next ! ( Initiate next task channel to nil)
begin ( For ever and ever do)
previous @ receive dup ( Retrieve the next number to check)
prime @ mod ( Check if not divisible)
if next @ ?dup ( Check if there exists a next channel)
if send ( Send to next filter task)
else
new-task FILTER drop ( Create a new filter task)
ONE-TO-ONE new-struct CHAN dup
next ! ( Save reference to next channel)
parameter send ( Send previous channel name)
parameter send ( And the prime number)
then
else
drop ( Drop if divisible)
then ( And try again)
again
task.end
: task-sieve ( -- )
new-task FILTER drop ( Create the initial filter task)
ONE-TO-ONE new-struct CHAN ( And its previous channel)
dup parameter send ( Send the parameters to the task)
2 parameter send
1024 3 do ( Send a stream of number and)
i over send ( let the tasks filter out the)
loop ( prime numbers)
drop
;
forth only