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- From: engb@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Ben Eng)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 vs. AmigaOS
- Message-ID: <BtuypA.5zq@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
- Organization: Jet Penguin Lavatories
- References: <1992Aug28.175748.42640@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <1992Aug29.003212.13913@endicor.com> <1992Aug31.033347.17131@marlin.jcu.edu.au> <1992Aug31.042231.395@endicor.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 17:17:33 GMT
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- In <1992Aug31.042231.395@endicor.com> tsarna@endicor.com (Ty Sarna) writes:
-
- >Actually, I think the Amiga is superb for multithreading, since shared
- >code and memory are so easy (the only choice, really). I think the
- >reason there aren't more multithreaded apps (on any platform; I really
- >don't know as proportionally there are many more such aps on other
- >platforms either) is that programmers in general (myself included) tend
- >to be lazy about such things. It's so tempting to make do with "good
- >enough".
-
- There really isn't much in terms of language support for multi
- threaded applications. Debugging multiple threads is absolute
- hell.
-
- If someone were to port over the latest release of TK (2.3 as
- of today) and TCL (6.4 as of today), life would be much nicer.
- It would make prototyping multitreaded GUI-based apps so much
- easier----even easier than ARexx.
-
- Every unix hacker wishes for an equivalent to fork() on the amiga,
- but we'll never see it. Wild's ixem library offers a vfork(),
- I believe. I wonder just how usable that vfork() is in real
- life. What are it's limitations (there must be some)?
-
- Ben
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