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Re: 6.3 reactions? [message #48594 is a reply to message #48556]

Fri, 05 May 2006 07:25

codepod
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Registered: March 2006

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JD Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 02 May 2006 05:52:53 +0000, Michael Galloy wrote:

>> Everyone will have their own favorites, but I think the IDL-IDL bridge
>> will be a feature that really adds something to IDL. It will allow you
>> to start new "threads". So, for example, to do some processing while the
>> controls of your GUI are still responsible to user interaction. Or
>> simply to farm out several different tasks to run independently.
>
> Does this really start an entirely new IDL process, or is there some
> kind of lightweight user-accessible threading support now available?
> I'm imagining the kind of havoc which could result if multiple user
> threads vie for window ids and other common resources.
>
For each IDL-IDL Bridge object you create, a child process of your IDL
session is created and it is executing its own interpreter. IDL
commands are dispatched in either a synchronous or asynchronous mode
(which will trigger an event when completed). While a simple interface
is presented to exchange data between the processes, internally shared
memory is used so the transfer is fairly efficeint.

As Mike pointed out in his original post, this is a great solution to
perform background processing while maintaining an interactive user
interface. Also it provides a quick method to create a "clean" idl
session to generate save files and the like. And with the proliferation
of multi-core processors, the bridge provides the IDL user a simple way
to exploit some of the capabilities of modern hardware.

- CP

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		6.3 reactions? By: Richard French on Mon, 01 May 2006 20:31
		Re: 6.3 reactions? By: codepod on Fri, 05 May 2006 07:25
		Re: 6.3 reactions? By: JD Smith on Fri, 05 May 2006 09:24
		Re: 6.3 reactions? By: Haje Korth on Thu, 04 May 2006 09:28
		Re: 6.3 reactions? By: R.Bauer on Thu, 04 May 2006 01:26
		Re: 6.3 reactions? By: codepod on Thu, 11 May 2006 13:15
		Re: 6.3 reactions? By: wem on Thu, 11 May 2006 10:26
		Re: 6.3 reactions? By: Haje Korth on Thu, 11 May 2006 10:06
		Re: 6.3 reactions? By: Foldy Lajos on Wed, 10 May 2006 10:24
		Re: 6.3 reactions? By: Haje Korth on Wed, 10 May 2006 09:33
		Re: 6.3 reactions? By: Craig Markwardt on Wed, 10 May 2006 08:23
		Re: 6.3 reactions? By: Mark Hadfield on Tue, 09 May 2006 16:21
		Re: 6.3 reactions? By: JD Smith on Tue, 09 May 2006 11:54
		Re: 6.3 reactions? By: JD Smith on Tue, 09 May 2006 11:59
		Re: 6.3 reactions? By: David Fanning on Tue, 09 May 2006 10:50
		Re: 6.3 reactions? By: codepod on Tue, 09 May 2006 10:30
		Re: 6.3 reactions? By: Richard French on Mon, 08 May 2006 21:23
		Re: 6.3 reactions? By: JD Smith on Mon, 08 May 2006 13:25
		Re: 6.3 reactions? By: codepod on Mon, 08 May 2006 07:29
		Re: 6.3 reactions? By: David Fanning on Fri, 05 May 2006 09:55

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