Multi-threading with Rebol 3.0 ?

[deglingo]

Hi everybody,

Do we know if multi-threading will be possible in REBOL 3.0 ? If YES, as users, do we know how we will able to use it ? Will it be possible to instantiate threads (a sort of "make thread!") and start them like in JAVA (thread/start) ? Or, will it be completely different ? Is is already part of REBOL 3.0 alpha release ?

Thanks for your comments.

[-pekr-]

Hi,

R3 will have tasks, those will be OS level threads however. The concept should be easier though, e.g. no ability to share memory in threads IIRC etc. So far the syntax is:

do make task! [wait 10 print "hello"]

now do some other stuff in console and above string should be printed. IIRC R3 tasks are not completed, because it somehow relates to modules, which are not finished either.

-pekr-