Level Extreme platform
Subscription
Corporate profile
Products & Services
Support
Legal
Français
Multi-Thread Programming in Foxpro?
Message
 
 
To
13/04/2001 03:52:47
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00492209
Message ID:
00495348
Views:
43
>Writing such code is really difficult, debugging it is horrible. I think the average VFP developers are not the right target for this kind of stuff.

Good point. I had only thought about what it would take to put it in the product. I had not thought of the issues the VFP dev would have to deal with. Now that you bring it up, even if multi-threading support is in VFP, I wonder if folks know what they are getting into. You are right, multi-threaded code is a nightmare to debug and test.

>Maybe in the (near?) future computer languages will evolve to the level where multi threaded programming will be a easy and trivial, but now is not the case.

Timing issues and blocking are still going to be problems, unless the languages automagically handle that somehow.

> You benefit from security, transaction support, multi-threading, just-in-time activation and more simply by declaring you whant them. My DLL is far less capable :)

Well, that depends on what your DLL is calling. If it's calling a multi-threaded DLL sitting in MTS/Component Services, then you get all of those benefits.
Mike Stewart
Previous
Next
Reply
Map
View

Click here to load this message in the networking platform