An idea on multithreading implementation

[Richard Gaskin]

Bob Sneidar wrote:
 > Well my thought was that LC would benefit hugely if 2 or more stacks
 > could be running in their own thread. Take for example an accounting
 > app. Normally you could have the Customer Entry form open, and the
 > Accounts Receivable window open in most well written apps. Sure you
 > could in LC too... so long as one of the windows was not in the
 > process of doing anything, like oh say compiling data for a really
 > large report.

If RunRev would reenable being able to run an app from the command line, 
conceivably you could run the report processing using a second 
standalone facelessly.

Sure, it's a bit of a kludge, but would be dirt-simple to implement, and 
wouldn't expose the treachery of race conditions to the masses. :)

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