Re: regarding multi-threading

[Robert S. <rs...@fr...>]

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:38:56 +0100 Dave wrote:
DS> > If somehow i get succeed..it will be  very trivial solution...not a
DS> > generalized one..
DS> 
DS> Hmmmm....  I'd be very surprised if this was a trivial problem.

I agree with Dave. This would be a lot of work.

If you are looking for a trivial solution, use multiple AgentX sub processes for your tables.

DS> > has it been proposed earlier also, to make the agent multithreaded..
DS> > or is it in the future plans???....
DS> 
DS> I'm not aware of any definite plans to address this, no.

Me either. Until someone with a lot of spare time or funding comes along (are you listening, Sun?), it's not likely to happen.  Most people just don't need thread support in the agent.

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