Re: [Gambas-user] Multithreaded Programs

[Benoît M. <g4...@gm...>]

Le 31/05/2018 à 23:27, MacGyver via Gambas-user a écrit :
> I will give you a real life example of the need for multithreading.
> 
> project to monitor status of computers on a network. this is done with a
> ping to each system from a timer. the result is either online or offline
> depending on ping results. The program is unresponsive to the user while
> multiple pings are done in the background. multithreading would allow the
> program to be responsive to users while other computer status is checked in
> another thread. furthermore if for some reason a person had 100 systems to
> monitor on the network, this will take time if many are in offline status
> leaving the program unresponsive to users for quite some time. creating 100
> threads each pinging only one system then terminating after returning the
> result would make it even faster as all pings are done simultaneously.
> 
> So there is but one real world application for multithreading. not to
> mention it would make gambas immensely more powerful.
> 

"A Computer is a state machine. Threads are for people who can't program 
state machines." - Alan Cox.

:-)

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Benoît Minisini