ahh my wise, cold, east german friend. good answer and fluffy agrees.
brucee On 1/9/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks, now I understand. The main question was why threadcreate asks > > for function pointer and can't just leave me in my function like rfork. > > So it is because we should move local variables out of scope as they > > are no more valid cause we have a new completely clear stack. > yes. > > > But when it is better to use rfork with shared memory and when > > libthread? > depends. but in the majority of cases you want to use libthread because > it also gives you synchronization primitives like channels and has > co-routines called threads wich run cooperatively in a real system > proc. > > but nobody forces you to use libthread. you can just use system primitives > like rendezvous, qlocks, pipes and shared memory with rfork. > > -- > cinap > > >
