Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga UNIX Message-ID: <4145@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 29 Jun 88 15:27:07 GMT References: <142@ssdis.UUCP> Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 19 in article <142@ssdis.UUCP>, gsarff@ssdis.UUCP (gary sarff) says: > Summary: 2 threads are cheap > Threads are nicer yes, but do many amiga programs use them, i.e. are there any > multi-threaded "application" programs? Probably not as many as there should be. Certainly most device drivers are multi-threaded. And I've also seen it used in video games (for example, each "Nasty" is a task, and you run N instances of that task for N "Nasties"). In between I haven't seen it used as much, but I suspect part of the reason for this is that most programmers aren't confortable with using multiple tasks within a single program. Regardless of whether they're multi-threaded or not. > Gary Sarff {uunet|ihnp4|philabs}!spies!ssdis!gsarff -- Dave Haynie "The 32 Bit Guy" Commodore-Amiga "The Crew That Never Rests" {ihnp4|uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: D-DAVE H BIX: hazy "I can't relax, 'cause I'm a Boinger!"