An idea on multithreading implementation

Andre Garzia andre at andregarzia.com
Tue Jan 18 20:16:06 EST 2011


On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com
> wrote:

> 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. :)
>
>
been there but it is hard to exchange messages between the instances... :-/



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